... to make the point that investigating incidents to find the root cause should be abandoned. Our purpose here is to explore what Dekker and others are telling us about causation, and the process by which we construct a narrative about what is believed to have occurred. It is this process of constructing...

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..., which emphasizes the multiplicity and complexity of accident causation, especially the interrelation of individual, organizational and job variables." What Leather is sayinghere is that there are certainly more factors to consider in determining why loss occurs in the workplace. US government...

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.... An employee who is asked this question might respond: - Right after I pulled on the heavy tote box (suggests acute causation) - I m not sure or It s been coming on for a while but it became too much when I was unloading the truck (suggests cumulative causation). 2. Did the pain develop slowly...

...Session No. 534 Application of the US Army Accident Causation Model During Combat Operations in Iraq Lieutenant Colonel James F. Jennings, CSP United States Army Reserve 101st Sustainment Brigade 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Fort Campbell, KY Introduction Safety in combat operations...

... task should be associated with the pain. An employee who is asked this question might respond: - Right after I pulled on the heavy tote box (suggests acute causation) - I m not sure or It s been coming on for a while but it became too much when I was unloading the truck (suggests cumulative...

.... In the safety profession, we frequently use a chain analogy in describing incidents or accidents and their causation. This most commonly takes the form of relating an incident to a chain of events. Within this chain of events, we look for the weak link as a means of identifying what went wrong and allowed...

... systems. Granted in most of the cases the past is not very distant but it is the past nevertheless. We have been assured for centuries that the past is prologue to the future. A bit of the past that should figure in the future is William Haddon Jr.’s Energy Transfer Theory of Injury causation. Despite...

...1999 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE My Job Caused It : Work-Related Causation for Industrial Injury and Disease Claims Howard M. Sandler, M.D. ASSE Professional Development Conference and Exposition Early in my career as a medical officer with NIOSH, I became acutely aware...