Safe As 36: How audits fail prior to major accidents

How do audits fail to avert major disasters? What do investigations after a major accident say about the performance, or failures, of audits?

Today’s article is Hutchinson, B., Dekker, S., & Rae, A. (2024). How audits fail according to accident investigations: A counterfactual logic analysis. Process Safety Progress, 43(3), 441-454.

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