Systemic causation models for hazards

A SYSTEMIC CAUSATION MODEL FOR HAZARDS-RELATED INCIDENTS... 

It is a necessity that the advice given by safety professionals be based on an understanding of the reality of causal factors and actually serves to attain a state for which the risks are judged to be acceptable. I will develop a systemic causation model for hazards-related occupational incidents that represents the thoughts set forth in this chapter. 

I conducted workshops on selected incident reports they had sent me. To help the attendees explore the reality of accident causation, they were given copies of the exhibit A Systemic Causation Model for Hazards-Related Incidents shown in Chapter 10. It works as a reference base. The point to be made was this The employees in that entity could do a good job of investigation if management so required. 

Chapter 10, A Systemic Causation Model for Hazards-Related Incidents ... 

In recognition of the need to further our knowledge of hazards-related incident causation, a chapter offers A Systemic Causation Model for Hazards Related Occupational Incidents. ... 

In Chapter 3, Serious Injury Prevention, an outline for such a study was presented under the heading Proposing a Study of Serious Injuries. Such a study will not be time-consuming since the data to be collected and analyzed should already exist or can be obtained easily. To assist in such a study, two addenda are provided at the conclusion of this chapter. Both are reprinted Ifom the third edition of On The Practice Of Safety Addendum A, A Systemic Causation Model for Hazards-Related Incidents, and Addendum B, Reference for Causal Factors and Corrective Actions. Another good reference when completing this evaluation, in terms of its comments on human errors that may be made above the worker level, is Chapter 4 here. 

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