Despite significant efforts to improve safety, occupational accidents continue to occur at an unacceptable rate. Most research attempts to convince stakeholders that the problem can be solved by improvements in a particular area, such as protective equipment, corporate safety culture, or training. This work adopts the alternative approach that accident causation is holistic and also includes unconventional external influencing factors such as the price of oil and societal value placed on life.
This book reviews approaches to accident causation and modelling taken by researchers over the past...