Not much to say here – just thought it may interest people.
They found organisational factors to be the main contributors to mining accidents in Iran based on their data.
As always, take claims like ‘main cause of accidents’ with a pinch of salt.
They analysed 305 mining accidents using a systems analysis approach (so What-You-Look-For-Is-What-You-Find).
And usual cautions around loaded terms like ‘violation’, safe / unsafe acts etc.
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Extracts:
· “Workers’ unsafe acts are usually considered to be the main cause of industrial accidents. However, in complex systems, humans are only one of multiple mutually-interacting system components”
· “Organizational deficiencies were found to be the main cause of accidents in the mining sector, as they affected all other aspects of system safety”
· “In order to prevent occupational accidents, organizational deficiencies should be modified first”
· “Organizational deficiencies had a direct positive effect on workers’ violations (path coefficient, 0.16) and workers’ errors (path coefficient, 0.23)”
· “organizational deficiencies had an indirect positive effect on workers’ unsafe acts, mediated by unsafe supervision and preconditions for unsafe acts”
· “the role of supervisors as a mediator between management rules/policies and workers can have a crucial effect on workers’ safe acts”
· “managerial lack of attention towards solving environmental and technological problems, such as lack of funding for the necessary technological tools for the workplace, can lead to workers’ unsafe acts”
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Study link: https://doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2018019
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