Assignment: "Using suitable examples discuss the contribution that accident causation theories make to our understanding of risk and the management of safety in the workplace." You will need to read...

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Accident Causation Theories: Understanding Risk, & Safety Management at Workplace
Accident Causation Theories: Understanding Risk, & Safety Management at Workplace
Introduction
Accident prevention represents one of highly fundamental element amongst all of the initiatives for safety management at workplace. In case of safety management being effective, consequently there needs to be case wherein the accidents are absent. In a converse manner, in case accidents are continuing to take place then evidently effective form of safety management is missing. Hence, realising how any accident takes place shall be fundamental for establishing the interventions that aid in the prevention of the accident occu
ence. While the said proposition seems simple, in the real world context accidents are much complex form of events and rarely an outcome from single failure. This complexity is the basis for the need to understand risks as well as safety management at workplace by way of theories for accident causation.
Accident Causation Theories: Literature Review
The model of domino theory proposes that specific factors of accident can be considered in being sequentially lined up akin to dominos. This model proposes that accident represents one amongst five of the factors in the sequence which leads to the injury and the injury refers an event that is invariably resulting from accidents as well as these accidents in consequence are at all times the outcomes from the factors which shall immediately precede the same (Reason 2016; Glendon et al. 2016; Sanchez et al. 2017). In case of accident prevention the central element of target lies in middle of a sequence, that is, the unsafe act from hazards of physical or mechanical or human sources. The five factors refe
ed herein include (i) social environments / ancestry, (ii) fault with concerned person, (iii) unsafe act, physical, and mechanical hazards, (iv) accident, and, (v) injury (Reason 2016; Glendon et al. 2016; Sanchez et al. 2017).
In extending this model, this accident can be considered in taking place while one amongst the factors concerning accident / dominos factors fall as well as have been leading to knock-down effects and lastly leading to the accident. On the basis of this model, effectively accidents can be avoided by way of removing the relevant factors and in this manner inte
upting ensuing knockdown effect (Reason 2016; Glendon et al. 2016; Sanchez et al. 2017).
As the workplace complexity evolved and becoming increasingly large in scope, the need to understand risks as well as manage safety for preventing as well as controlling accidents started to become highly complex on account of the advancements in technology (Reason 2016; Glendon et al. 2016; Sanchez et al. 2017). This led to the development of domino model for including management relationships within causes / effects concerning accident loss leading to the incorporation of a
ows for illustrating multi-linear form of interactions pertaining to sequences of cause as well as effect. This new advanced model is refe
ed as loss causation model (Reason 2016;...