| Accident |
a process; that process by which a normal, stable activity is transformed to
produce an undesired and usually unplanned outcome. |
| Change |
a transition from one steady or dynamic state to another. |
| Conclusion |
a decision or judgment reached after a logical reasoning process. |
| Deviation |
an action that differs from what was planned, intended or expected. |
| Energy |
anything capable of doing work, or producing change in something else. |
| Event |
the investigators' basic investigative and analytical building blocks; for
investigation purposes, what someone or something did; technically, one actor +
one action. |
| Event pair |
two events being examined on a matrix for their cause-effect or other
relationships or linked with cause-effect arrows. |
| Event set |
three or more events being examined on a matrix for their cause-effect or
other relationships, or linked with cause-effect arrows. |
| Gap |
the unknown events between two known events that have to be identified to
complete a description of what happened during the occurrence. |
| Incident |
An aborted accident ; an incipient accident process which was prevented from
producing significant loss by successful intervention actions by some person(s) or
object(s). |
| Investigate |
to observe and inquire into what happened and why it happened; examine
systematically. (Informal - How did what you see come to be?). |
| Objective |
the desired accomplishment for which a task is undertaken. |
| Observation |
a noting and recording of an action, condition or state by an observer. |
| Opinion |
a belief held confidently, but reached without positive proof. |
| Process |
a system of interacting events producing changes of state in people and things
for the production or achievement of some output. |
| State |
a condition of existence of a person or thing, requiring some energy input to
change. |
| Stressor |
an energy source that does work during a process, producing a change in someone
or something else; . |
| Systematic |
a set of orderly, structurally inter-related steps based on a network of
concepts, principles and rules. |
| Witness plate |
something on which is implanted a partial or complete record of events to which it was exposed. |
