System Failures and Injury Dynamics in Mining

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

It is a common misconception that injuries, particularly fatalities and life-threatening incidents, result from a single major breakdown in the safety process. In reality, most incidents (including those with major ramifications) result from simple safety system failures. One has only to study the root causes 

Organizational culture is the accumulation of what is discussed, written, assumed, valued, and acted on. 

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