Safety violation is ignorance or something else?

Is accident that result into injury or property loss, only because of less or no knowledge of safety?

But, is it a case with every person? Probably not always.

Most of the accidents are result of some ones behavioural issues, i.e. behaviour of ease/comfort and overconfidence. Person collide with train manoeuvring closed gate, sustained burn injury while handling acids, get injured while jumping the red lights, get electrical shock attempting repair of live electrical appliances, fell from height while working without fall protection etc. In all above cases or almost in all other likes, the hazards in the activity are known to the person, yet he/she do not follow the safety. We very often conclude with the “lack of training” in almost all investigated cases of accidents and recommend imparting training as remedial measures. As a general safety intervention also, we give focus on training and awareness and a significant amount of time and money spend on this head. These conventional approaches of safety without objective assessment help improve safety hardly.  The root cause of the accident thus never is analysed properly to attack on, an unfortunately accidents keep on appearing then and now.

Here it is not at all meant that Training and awareness should be abandoned. Should continue because it is an integral part of the safety management, however training should be given only after proper identification of the need followed by assessment of its effectiveness. Without need identification training is like offering food to someone who has stomach full.