What-You-Look-For-Is-What-You-Find – The consequences of underlying accident models in eight accident investigation manuals

• Published in: Safety science Vol. 47; no. 10; pp. 1297 - 1311
• Main Authors: Lundberg, Jonas, Rollenhagen, Carl, Hollnagel, Erik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier India Pvt Ltd 01.12.2009; Elsevier
• Subjects: Accident investigation; Accident models; Biological and medical sciences; Crisis and risk management; Filosofiämnen; Historisk-filosofiska ämnen; History and philosophy subjects; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; Humanities and Social Sciences; Medical sciences; Miscellaneous; Occupational medicine; Philosophy subjects; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIKVETENSKAP; Accident models; Accident investigation; Occupational accident; Work safety; Etiology; Manuals; Definition; Models; Causality; Occupational medicine

Accident investigation manuals are influential documents on various levels in a safety management system, and it is therefore important to appraise them in the light of what we currently know – or assume – about the nature of accidents. Investigation manuals necessarily embody or represent an accide...