Circuit board accident - organizational dimension hidden by prescribed safety

This study analyzes an accident in which two maintenance workers suffered severe burns while replacing a circuit breaker panel in a steel mill, following model of analysis and prevention of accidents (MAPA) developed with the objective of enlarging the perimeter of interventions and contributing to deconstruction of blame attribution practices. The study was based on materials produced by a health service team in an in-depth analysis of the accident. The analysis shows that decisions related to system modernization were taken without considering their implications in maintenance scheduling and creating conflicts of priorities and of interests between production and safety; and also reveals that the lack of a systemic perspective in safety management was its principal failure. To explain the accident as merely non-fulfillment of idealized formal safety rules feeds practices of blame attribution supported by alibi norms and inhibits possible prevention. In contrast, accident analyses undertaken in worker health surveillance services show potential to reveal origins of these events incubated in the history of the system ignored in practices guided by the traditional paradigm.

Circuit board accident - organizational dimension hidden by prescribed safety

This study analyzes an accident in which two maintenance workers suffered severe burns while replacing a circuit breaker panel in a steel mill, following model of analysis and prevention of accidents (MAPA) developed with the objective of enlarging the perimeter of interventions and contributing to deconstruction of blame attribution practices. The study was based on materials produced by a health service team in an in-depth analysis of the accident. The analysis shows that decisions related to system modernization were taken without considering their implications in maintenance scheduling and creating conflicts of priorities and of interests between production and safety; and also reveals that the lack of a systemic perspective in safety management was its principal failure. To explain the accident as merely non-fulfillment of idealized formal safety rules feeds practices of blame attribution supported by alibi norms and inhibits possible prevention. In contrast, accident analyses undertaken in worker health surveillance services show potential to reveal origins of these events incubated in the history of the system ignored in practices guided by the traditional paradigm.

The International dry-farming congress, containing: the official call of the seventh international session, and exposition, at Lethbridge, Alberta, October 19-26, 1912. The dry-farming congress--its history, its sims, its successes. The province of Alberta ... its resources, its development, its possibilities, and the agricultural and industrial districts of southern Alberta. Pub. by the Department of agriculture of the province of Alberta, and the Board of control, of the seventh International dry-farming congress.

Edited by Charles S. Hotchkiss.

The industrial education survey of the city of New York ... Report of the committee authorized by the Board of estimate and apportionment.

C.R. Richards, chairman.

A report on the problem of the substitution of woman for man power in industry; approved by the Board of directors, July 17th, 1918, made by the Committee on industrial welfare of the Cleveland Chamber of commerce.

"Appendix 'A': Industries and processes on which women are employed." Report on women employed in iron and steel industries in Cleveland, Ohio, by Elizabeth Arnold.

Biennial report of the Superintendent of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School to the Governor and the Board of Trustees [serial] : for the biennium ending ...

Report year ends in Nov. (1st and 5th report), Dec. (6th report), and June (7th-11th reports).

Accident prevention manual for industrial operations.

Includes bibliographies.

Workmen's compensation law and Industrial board rules, with amendments, additions and annotations to March 1, 1936. Issued under the direction of Elmer F. Andrews, industrial commissioner.

Includes index.

Reports of cases and proceedings before the Board of railroad commissioners of the state of Montana. Official report, 1907/08-1923/24.

1907/08-1918/19 have title: First[-Twelfth] annual report of the Board of railroad commissioners.

Restaurant Minimum Wage Board, 1947. Material presented to the Wage Board by the Labor Department and recommendations of the Wage Board to the Industrial Commissioner.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Industrial Commissioner to the Hotel Minimum Wage Board, relating to wages and other conditions of employment of women and minors in hotels and other lodging establishments.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Industrial Commissioner to the Laundry Minimum Wage Board relating to wages and other conditions of employment of women and minors in the laundry industry, New York State.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Industrial Commissioner to the Confectionery Minimum Wage Board relating to wages and other conditions of employment of women and minors in the confectionery industry, New York State.

Mode of access: Internet.

National Labor Relations Board petitioner v. National Maritime Union of America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Joseph Curran, Jack Lawrenson, Josh Lawrence, Chester Young, Harold McCormick, Michael McBride, and Charles Monroe, respondents; on petition for enforcement of an order of the National Labor Relations Board; brief for the National Labor Relations Board.

Cover title.