title: Allometric scaling and accidents at work.
abstract: Allometry is the knowledge concerning relations between the features of some beings, like animals, or cities. For example, the daily energy rate is proportional to a mass of mammals rise of 3/4. This way of thinking has spread quickly from biology to many areas of research concerned with sociotechnical systems. It was revealed that the number of innovations, patents or heavy crimes rises as social interaction increases in a bigger city, while other urban indexes such as suicides decrease with social interaction. Enterprise is also a sociotechnical system, where social interaction and accidents at work take place. Therefore, do these interactions increase the number of accidents at work or, on the contrary, are they reduction-driving components? This article tries to catch such links and assess the allometric exponent between the number of accidents at work and the number of employees in an enterprise.
authors.affiliation: a Central Institute for Labour Protection - National Research Institute (CIOP-PIB) , Poland.
authors.forename: Czesław
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cempel
authors.affiliation: b Poznań University of Technology , Poland.
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tabaszewski
authors.affiliation: a Central Institute for Labour Protection - National Research Institute (CIOP-PIB) , Poland.
authors.forename: Szymon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ordysiński
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D016014:Linear Models; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: accidents at work; allometric scaling; size of an enterprise; statistical data