Predicting and Preventing the Unwanted
Examples and expansion of the content of this Chapter
While moving my home library I came across St Thomas Aquinas’ work entitled Philosophical Texts. St Thomas (1275 to 1274) was a well known and well regarded Sicilian philosopher. My translation by Thomas Gilby was published in 1951 by the…
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While I have a view that the search for causes is somewhat futile and the effort is misplaced, I am nevertheless interested in the reality of this. What if a number of people were asked to independently look at the…
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Accident theory places such an emphasis on the idea of ’cause’ that it is often hard for people to understand the relative insignificance of this concept. Heinrich understood that while one thing may ’cause’ an ‘accident’ something else altogether might…
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Some of the safety slogans seen during the course of work. Many, if not all, of them come from people with an ‘accident prevention’ approach to ‘safety’. SAFE OPERATION HAS NO BOTHERATION LITTLE CARE – LONG LIFE SAFETY FIRST, SECOND…
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