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Citation |
Souder WE. Ind. Crisis Q. 1988; 2(3-4): 185-194. |
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(Copyright © 1988, Industrial Crisis Institute - Bucknell University) |
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Abstract |
"Something snapped and he went off the deep end." "He acted completely out of character." "He had always been the ideal of safe behavior, but he suddenly did this dumb thing." These statements describe behavioral accidents. The role of the individual employee and behavioral accidents as causes of industrial crises has not been fully explored. This paper discusses an interactive computer model of the behavioral accident phenomenon that is being used at the US Bureau of Mines in an attempt to reduce industrial crises in under ground coal mining. |