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

The Safety of Work

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What Is Functional Abstrapping?

David Wheeler: There's no real point looking at individual risk management practices. He says the way that we need to model these complex systems requires what he calls functional abstraction, not structural decomposition. Wheeler: Everyone takes that basic idea and translates it in different ways. Ithing wer actually planning next week to have a look at one of levison's papers.

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