Perceptions of accident phenomenon

PROBABLY THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FINDING WAS THE 5 DIFFERENT PERCEPTIONS OF ACCIDENTS

• Single event, viewing accidents as a single event like a lightning bolt or act of god; this includes much regulatory compliance/violation thinking.
• Chain-of-events, or linear sequence much like a row of toppling dominos.
• Factorial view, or an occasion involving ëfactorsí which can be identified by statistical analysis methods.
• Branched converging events chain, illustrated by converging fault tree charts; and
• Multilinear events sequences, thinking of an accident as a process involving concurrent interactions that produce an unintended outcome.

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