TRIPOD: Professionalism versus amateurism in the management of safety

摘要

This paper will discuss the role of human error in the accident causation process and indicate what the most effective way is of human error prevention. Human error is an important contributing cause in up to at least 90% of all accidents. Consequently the elimination of human error should be a most promising target for accident prevention. Tripod concentrates upon systemic factors and the way in which management decisions can propagate into unsafe conditions at the work place. It attempts to help the organization to control the accident causation process and not to focus mainly on the individual worker or the negative outcomes like accidents and incidents. Optimal control of the controllable environmental conditions that cause human error makes an organization maximally intrinsically safe. Managing these conditions is the next step in getting as close to zero accidents as economically and logistically feasible.