The blameworthiness of health and safety rule violations
2006-01-13
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Man-made disasters usually lead to the tightening of safety regulations, because rule breaking is seen as a major cause of them. This reaction is based on the presumptions that the safety rules are good and that the rule-breakers are wrong. The reasons the personnel of a coke factory gave for breaking rules raise doubt about the tenability of these presumptions. It is unlikely that this result would have been achieved on the basis of a disaster evaluation or High-Reliability Theory. In both approaches, knowledge of the consequences of human conduct hinders an unprejudiced judgement about the blameworthiness of rule breaking.
Keywords
- health
- social values
- regulation
- safety
- High Reliability Theory
- accidents
- disaster evaluation
- moral judgement
- rule violation
Automatically Extracted Terms
- safety
- disaster
- safety rules
- accident
- management
- violation
- example
- reason
- factory
- coke factory
- rule violations
- people
- employee
- personnel
- research
- error
- middle management
- journal
- supervisor
- regulation
