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

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This is the 61st episode of the safety wort podcast. Today we're going to be talking about an article, which in turn provides a historical account of the swiss cheese model. The original picture is basically four slices of cheese, each of them with a number of holes,. There's an arrow going through all four slices where the holes have lined up. And the arrow is labelled hazards at the start and losses at the end. One of ththings were goin to be talked about was that there are actually many, many versions of this same diagram - even if we just stick to ones that are produced by james reason.

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