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8 Module 1: History and Philosophy of Loss Control Loss Control Management (LCM)

Module 1: History and Philosophy of Loss Control

Objectives:

At the end of the LCM course, the participant
will be able to:

• Understand and learn the historical
background of safety and the philosophy

behind loss control
• Learn about the Code of Hammurabi
• Learn about the milestones and the early
attitudes on safety and loss control

Code of Hammurabi
“If a man put out the eye of another man,
his eye shall be put out.” [An eye for an eye]

Code of Hammurabi is a set of rules or
laws in the Ancient Babylonian enacted by the
Babylonian King Hammurabi that reigned during
1792-1750 B.C. The code of Hammurabi, or also

known as Codex Hammurabi and Hammurabi’s
Code, is one of the earliest sets of laws found and
one of the best preserved examples of documents
from Mesopotamia.

There are as many as 300 laws in the text that discusses a wide range of subjects, including

homicide, assault, divorce, debt, adoption, tradesman’s fees, agricultural practices, and even disputes
regarding the brewing of beer. The prologue or introduction to the list of laws is very enlightening. In this
part, Hammurabi states that he wants “to make justice visible in the land, to destroy the wicked person
and the evil-doer, that the strong might not injure the weak”.

Some examples of the codes are the following:

• If a builder build a house for a man and do not make its construction firm and the house which
he has built collapse and cause the death of the owner of the house – that builder shall be put to
death.

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