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A Susceptibility Model for Organizational Accidents

Authors : Douglas Minnema, Monique Helfrich

Published in: Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Social epidemiology “is a branch of epidemiology that focuses particularly on the effects of social-structural factors on states of health. Social epidemiology assumes that the distribution of advantages and disadvantages in a society reflects the distribution of health and disease. It proposes to identify societal characteristics that affect the pattern of disease and health distribution in a society and to understand its mechanisms” [1]. Social epidemiology studies the factors that affect the susceptibility of a population to disease. The authors of this paper believe that there are strong parallels between the susceptibility of populations to disease and the susceptibility of organizations to the occurrence and distribution of accidents. This paper will discuss some of those parallels and possible approaches to understanding and reducing an organization’s susceptibility to accidents.

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Title
A Susceptibility Model for Organizational Accidents
Authors
Douglas Minnema
Monique Helfrich
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-20496-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-20497-6

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20497-6_2