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organizational accident: a standalone construct

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Safety science

an accident arising from latent conditions in organizations combined with local failures, rather than from one person's error.

In safety science, organizational accident refers to an accident arising from latent conditions in organizations combined with local failures, rather than from one person's error. This meaning comes from Reason (1997) in Managing the risks of organizational accidents.[1]

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accident3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs error4 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs latent4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Reason, J. T. (1997). Managing the risks of organizational accidents. Ashgate. ISBN 9781840141047

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