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dc.contributor.authorRae, Andrew John
dc.contributor.authorAlexander, Rob D
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-06T23:33:17Z
dc.date.available2017-08-06T23:33:17Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0925-7535
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ssci.2016.10.005
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/343114
dc.description.abstractSafety 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.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier Science
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom190
dc.relation.ispartofpageto204
dc.relation.ispartofjournalSafety Science
dc.relation.ispartofvolume92
dc.subject.fieldofresearchRisk engineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOccupational and workplace health and safety
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode401005
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode350505
dc.titleProbative blindness and false assurance about safety
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyArts, 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.
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gro.griffith.authorRae, Drew J.


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