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Ep.86 Do we have adequate models of accident causation?

The Safety of Work

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The Next Inevitable Accident

Accidents are caused by events that are initiated by the normal efforts of lots of different people operating in their daily work context, andresponding to this standing request to get my job done as efficiently i can. At some point in time there's a quite normal variation in someone's behavior that releasest this accident sequence. And if if it hadn't been this time, with this particular cause, in inverted commets, it might we think that it would have been avoided because of some new safety measure which we put in place. The reality is it'll just be released by another cause at another point in time. Because he said, we need we don't have. A framework that understands

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