"Analysis of Human Factors Related Accidents and Near Misses" by James Reason

U.S. Department of Transportation

 

Date of this Version

2002

Comments

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop On Human Factors In Offshore Operations '02. Huston, Texas, April 8-10, 2002.

Abstract

Two kinds of bad event

Two ways of looking at human factors problems

Individual & organizational ax have different causal sets

The ‘Swiss cheese’ model of accident causation

How and why defenses fail

Matrix for defensive failures

Piper Alpha: Defensive failures

Unsafe acts

Rule-related behaviours

Workplace factors

Organizational factors

Accident investigation steps

System contributions (Single or multiple events)

Aims of HF event analysis

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