dc.contributor.author | Rae, Andrew John | |
dc.contributor.author | Alexander, Rob D | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-06T23:33:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-06T23:33:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0925-7535 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ssci.2016.10.005 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/343114 | |
dc.description.abstract | Safety activities may provide assurance of safety even where such assurance is unwarranted. This phenomenon – which we will call “probative blindness” – is evident both in hindsight analysis of accidents and in the daily practice of safety work. The purpose of this paper is to describe the phenomenon of probative blindness. We achieve this by distinguishing probative blindness from other phenomena, identifying historical instances of probative blindness, and discussing characteristics and causes associated with these instances. The end product is an explanation of the features of probative blindness suitable for investigating the probative value of current safety activities, and ultimately for reducing the occurrence of probative blindness. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier Science | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 190 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 204 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Safety Science | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 92 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Risk engineering | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Occupational and workplace health and safety | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 401005 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 350505 | |
dc.title | Probative blindness and false assurance about safety | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dcterms.license | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript (AM) | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2017 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Rae, Drew J. | |