Underlying causes and level of learning from accidents reported to the MARS database

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-45

  Jacobsson, Anders ^a,b   Sales, Jaime ^c   Mushtaq, Fesil ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accident analysis; Causation analysis; Learning lessons; Major accidents; MARS; Underlying causes

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT ANALYSIS; CASE DESCRIPTION; CAUSATION ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; IN-PROCESS; LEARNING FROM ACCIDENTS; LESSONS LEARNED; MAJOR ACCIDENTS; MAJOR INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS; MEMBER STATE; SAFETY CULTURE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; SEQUENTIAL METHODS; SEVESO II DIRECTIVE; UNDERLYING CAUSE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 76449090185     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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