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Questioning the Foundations of Traditional Safety Engineering

It s never what we don t know that stops us. It s what we do know that just ain t so.  [Pg.7]

Paradigm changes necessarily start with questioning the basic assumptions underlying what we do today. Many beliefs about safety and why accidents occur have been widely accepted without question. This chapter examines and questions some of the most important assumptions about the cause of accidents and how to prevent them that just ain t so. There is, of course, some truth in each of these assumptions, and many were true for the systems of the past. The real question is whether they still fit today s complex sociotechnical systems and what new assumptions need to be substituted or added. [Pg.7]

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