Accident reports may not tell us everything we need to know

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 753-756

  Kletz, Trevor A ^a,b  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accident reports; Buncefield; Missed recommendations

Indexed keywords

BUNCEFIELD;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 71649083067     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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