Accident Causation

The many factors that act together to cause accidents. They include: personal factors, job factors, and lack of management control factors.

Personal factors : inadequate capability, lack of knowledge/skill, improper motivation, stress.

Job factors : inadequate leadership or supervision, inadequate engineering, inadequate purchasing, inadequate maintenance, inadequate work standards/procedures, inadequate hazard controls

Lack of management control factors : inadequate program, inadequate program standards, inadequate compliance with standards, inadequate hazard controls