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Near Miss Versus Accident Causation in the UK Rail Industry

Last updated on 14 August 2014 4:56

There is much controversy over the veracity of the common cause hypothesis: that near misses and actual accidents have the same causal patterns. This paper describes the comparison of the causes of accidents and near misses collected from one UK Railway company. The accidents were collected following...

Author(s): Wright LB;Tjerk W;Schaaf V

Organisation(s): ProRail ; Eindhoven University of Technology ;

2005

Netherlands

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