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Accident Causation - Accident Direct Causes
Direct causes
The basic assumption here is that events that lead to the consequences that we see are more often than not triggered by someone doing something (the “act”) in a certain environment (the “condition”). Because of this we divide the direct causes in: (1) causes that are related to a person and an act, and (2) causes that are related to the actual (work) environment or conditions.
Direct causes of accidents/incidents are divided in two main categories:
Improvement actions can be generated from this level and will be entered into the action “module” for follow-up until completion.
The level of direct causes may have to be by-passed - in case of incidents that have little or no relation to safety – in order to arrive at the basic causes that have a much wider area of application.
Direct causes exist because of underlying causes: the root causes.
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