@article{ref1,
title="Mental causal models of incidents communicated in licensee event reports in a process industry",
journal="Cognition, technology and work",
year="2003",
author="Salo, Ilkka and Svenson, Ola",
volume="5",
number="3",
pages="211-217",
abstract="The present investigation describes some mental causal models used in incident reports. Some of the models (e.g., single-cause models) are simpler than others (e.g., causal-tree models). The models are also associated with different ways of explaining an incident or accident and with different recommendations for increasing the safety of a system. In study 1, incident reports from Swedish nuclear power plants known to use human or organisational factors were analysed. The analysis showed that the most frequent model was a simple single-cause model. Two-step models and more complex models were less frequent. Study 2 analysed all licensee event reports (including those reports not related to human organisational factors) from four reactors assessed by regulators during the year. The results showed that single-cause and two-step accident models were more frequent than more complex models. The analyses also revealed that different detection modes were related to different models.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1435-5558",
doi="10.1007/s10111-003-0121-3",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10111-003-0121-3"
}