Incident investigation: Fix the problem—not the blame

✍ Scribed by Larry Russell

• Book ID: 104376059
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 486 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1074-9098
• DOI: 10.1016/s1074-9098(00)87103-8

✦ Synopsis

Sometimes incident investigations are seen as procedures for

placing blame for an accident rather than as a way of truly finding the root causes to use in prevention. This article discusses ways that an organization can work toward removing the words "fault" and "blame" from the vocabulary of incident investigations.