Causation incident investigation design

When designing an incident investigation and analysis process, a determination must be made concerning the causation model on which the process is to be based. What the designer of the process believes are the facts about incident causation has to be established before an instmctional guide can be written or a training program developed. Consider these extremes. 

Assume that a decision is made that Heinrich s principles of incident causation are to be the bases for the design of an incident investigation system. Then, the system would accentuate avoiding man failure, a Heinrichean term. Emphasis would be on eliminating unsafe acts of employees, through training or some form of behavior modification. 

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