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Types and tokens in road accident causation
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Wagenaar, Willem A. ‌
Types and tokens in road accident causation / William A. Wagenaar and James T. Reason
Sumario: Accidents are preceded by long histories containing multitudes of events that constitute promising targets fro preventive action. These antecedent events can be classified into at least four groups that occur in the order: failure types; psychological precursors; unsafe acts; and breakdown of defences. It is argued that events directly preceding an accident, such as breakdown of defences and unsafe acts, are only haphazard tokens of the more permanent weakness within a system
En: Ergonomics. - London and Washington. - Vol. 33, nº 10-11, October-November 1990 ; p. 1365-1375
1. Error humano ‌. 2. Seguridad vial ‌. 3. Psicosociología de la prevención ‌. 4. Comportamiento humano ‌. 5. Accidentes de tráfico ‌. 6. Análisis de fallos ‌. 7. Prevención de accidentes ‌. I. Reason, James T. ‌. II. Title. III. Título: Ergonomics.