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Ep.61 Is Swiss cheese helpful for understanding accident causation?

The Safety of Work

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Latent Conditions and Organizational Safety Management

The idea of latent conditions in the organization that obviously give rise to make it more or less likely that accidents will occur. The problems are things that are deep set, that have been around for a while and we don't need an accident to study those. We should be able to find the organization. Now, he was much more about problematizing it than most of the of current everyday workpeople are. He was using s like pathagans and talking about the organizational viruses that spread and how we need to sort of root them out.

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