REDRESSING THE BALANCE:
A Commonsense Approach to Causation
Chapter Five Part 1: Start of the Management Failure Movement
| Weaver’s (1971) accident sequence | 95-97 |
| Bird’s (1974 updated ‘domino’ sequence | 97-103 |
| Accident prone or error prone? | 103-107 |
| Questionable use of ‘research’ by the regulator | 107-113 |
| Interim summary | 114-115 |
Chapter Five Part 2: A Notion of Cause that is Absurd in both Practice and Principle
| Not all causes are causes | 117-120 |
| Recognising the limit of relevant causes | 120-122 |
| Tail chasing and fire fighting – the effect of relocating cause upstream | 122-124 |
| Invariable and unconditional sequence | 124-125 |
| Why so many dominoes and slices of cheese? | 125-126 |
| Interim summary | 127 |
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