The causes of accidents

If your company’s accident causation model looks like a row of dominoes you may be lead to believe that accidents, incidents, and bad safety performance are the result of unsafe act and unsafe conditions., both of which are ultimately the responsibility of people ,as people are involved in every step from design, construction, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning. Heinrich’s Dominos

This philosophy is based on the work of an

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Safety Culture

“Organisational culture” seems to be an elusive concept that evades strict definition and identification, yet we all know what the culture is in any organisation we encounter and can describe its characteristics. A subset of “organisational culture” is “safety culture”, which is not immune to the same vagaries and adds another layer of abstractions.
Given the difficulties in describing and defining an organisations culture, one might expect it to be difficult to identify its origins

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Andina are able to provide scientifically sound and field tested solutions to safety problems. The models and methods employed are based on scientific and systematic approaches, which allow us to objectively tackle the issues of safety in your workplace to improve performance. We are able to offer a complete, end-to-end safety solution to help you manage your business more effectively and produce real and measurable results.

The use of scientifically sound models allows us to effectively capture all hazards in your workplace, measure the probability and consequences of potential problems and suggest responsible solutions. The application of these simple yet powerful concepts allows managers to effectively reduce risk and loss, which lowers costs while increasing reliability, production, performance and health.

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