(2012) Onieva, Luis; Carrillo-Castrillo, Jesús Antonio; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Organización Industrial y Gestión de Empresas II
: Occupational safety is an important issue. Industrial engineering and
management plays an important role in a socio-technical view of accident causation.
This paper analyzes 418 official investigation reports of non-slight accidents
in the Andalusian manufacturing sector from 2004 to 2008. Investigation reports
include 1,311 causes identified and coded, of which 669 causes are directly related
to safety management and work organization. This paper shows how different
scenarios are related to specific causes of accidents and the association between
organizational and management causes and the mechanism of the accidents and
their immediate causes. In order to prevent, both severe and fatal accidents, managers
and safety experts should take into account these results in order to include
the most frequent causes as inputs for safety assessments.
