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Is there a need for new theories, models and approaches to occupational accident prevention?

Abstract

This paper discusses occupational accident modelling challenges associated with a changing working life, and asks whether ideas from models developed for high-risk, complex socio-technical systems can be transformed and adapted for use in occupational accident prevention. Are occupational accidents mainly simple component failures or is a systemic approach to the phenomenon of some interest and value?

Category

Academic article

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Jan Hovden
  • Eirik Albrechtsen
  • Ivonne Andrade Herrera

Affiliation

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • SINTEF

Year

2010

Published in

Safety Science

ISSN

0925-7535

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

48

Issue

8

Page(s)

950 - 956

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