Accidents reasons

The article select 100 coal mine accident cases from all the accidents happened in 2001-2009 according to the reason type of coal mine accidents, including mine roof accident, gas accident, water disaster accident, transportation accident, mechanical and electrical accident, explosion accident, fire accident and other accidents. Though analysis the accidents process, acquainting accident investigation and handling, the accident reasons were found out. The reason of coal mine accidents in our country mainly includes the following four areas ... 

Another of James Reason s books—Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents—is a must read for safety professionals who want an education in human error reduction. It was published in 1997 and has been reprinted five times. Reason writes about how the effects of decisions accumulate over time and become the causal factors for incidents resulting in serious injuries or damage when all the circumstances necessary for the occurrence of a major event come together. This book was referenced in Chapter 3, Serious Injury Prevention, because it stresses the need to focus on decision making above the worker level to prevent major accidents. Reason writes this ... 

Acceptable risk levels cannot be maintained if systems are not adequately maintained. As this chapter was being written, incident investigation reports received by this author indicate that, because of severe expense reductions, maintenance has deteriorated—the result being serious injuries and fatalities. In the excerpt from Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents (Reason, 1997) previously quoted, reference is made to maintenance failures as contributors to the... 

See color insert.) Sequence of events leading to an accident ( Reason s... 

E.g. in the German towns Hanover and Dresden [4] such mobile teams join specific accident scenes to collect relevant electronic data for the investigation of accident reasons in order to improve the vehicle and road safety in future. 

Information on any pre-emplo5anent, post-accident, reasonable suspicion, retum-to-duty, or follow-up tests conducted, and test results ... 

Accident based procedures provide only limited insight into the contributing factors of an accident. Reasons for this are ... 

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