Causation categories

Because of the emphasis on modeling accident causation, data collection systems based on the system-induced error approach are likely to modify their data collection strategies over time. Thus, as evidence accumulates that the existing causal categories are inadequate to accoimt for the accidents and near misses that are reported, the data collection philosophy will be modified, and a new accident causation model developed. This, in turn, will be modified on the basis of subsequent evidence. 

This section discusses the basics of determining incident causation and describes the general categories of incidents—from near miss to major catastrophe. It examines the anatomy of process incidents as related to theoretical models of incident causation. 

The lOM committee assigned each relationship to one of four categories of causation in which the evidence... 

The themes are classified into three categories (i) Orientation the emotional and intellectual standpoint from which the deviance is evaluated (ii) Images opinions about the nature of the deviants and their behaviour (iii) Causation opinions about the causes of the behaviour. (The set of opinions dealing with solutions or methods of handling the behaviour will be dealt with... 

Although many theories attempt to explain accident and injury causation, every accident falls into one of the following categories ... 

In the area of aviation. Human Factors Reporting Program "BASIS" of the British Airways divided accident causation under the following five categories [3] ... 

Categories of Human Factors Accident Causation in the Oil Industry... 

What were the categories under which the British Airways Human Factors Reporting Program "BASIS" divided accident causation ... 

Chapter 5 is devoted to safety in offshore oil and gas industry. Some of the topics covered in this chapter are offshore industrial sector risk picture, offshore worker situation awareness concept, offshore industry accident reporting approach, and offshore industry accidents case studies. Chapter 6 is devoted to case studies of oil tanker spill-related accidents, oil tanker spill analysis, and oil spill causes. Chapter 7 presents various important aspects of human factors contribution to accidents in the oil and gas industry and fatalities in the industry. Some of the topics covered in this chapter are human factors that affect safety in general, categorization of accident-related human factors in the industrial sector, categories of human factors accident causation in the oil industry, and recommendations to reduce fatal oil and gas industry incidents. Chapter 8 is devoted to case studies of maintenance influence on major accidents in the oil and gas industry and safety-instrumented systems and their spurious activation in the oil and gas industry. 

It is critical to cast a very wide net in considering sources of causation. We have successfully used the categories of human, material, and organizational and required the Usting of at least one cause under each heading. 

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