Incorporating organizational issues into root-cause analysis

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-16

  Tuli, R W ^a   Apostolakis, G E ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Organizational factors; Root cause analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ENGINEERING FACILITIES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MAINTENANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHEMICAL PROCESS FACILITIES; MANAGEMENT DEFICIENCY; ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS; PLANT WORK PROCESSES; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030082730     PISSN: 09575820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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