Why do organizations not learn from incidents? Bottlenecks, causes and conditions for a failure to effectively learn

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 72, Issue , 2014, Pages 351-358

  Drupsteen, Linda ^a,b   Hasle, Peter ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

'Failure to learn'; Accident; Cases; Causes; Organization; Safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

'FAILURE TO LEARN; CASES; CAUSES; INCIDENT INVESTIGATION; LEARNING DIFFICULTIES; LEARNING FROM INCIDENTS; LEARNING PROCESS; LEARNING TO LEARN;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BUILDING INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LEARNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTIVATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84907350209     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2014.07.027     Document Type: Article

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