Columbia disaster, system safety

Reference is made several times in this book to an organization s safety culture and how it impacts on the injury experience attained, favorable or unfavorable. Since causal factors for incidents resulting in serious injury are largely systemic and their accumulation is a reflection of the organization s safety culture, that subject must be explored. Comments made on organizational culture in the August 2003 Report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board on the Columbia space ship disaster are pertinent here. They follow. 

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