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- Title
The Blameworthiness of Health and Safety Rule Violations.
- Authors
Mascini, Peter
- Abstract
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 assumptions 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 assumptions. 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 where the blame for rule breaking lies.
- Subjects
TRAFFIC engineering; TRAFFIC safety; SAFETY regulations; ACCIDENTS; DISASTERS; PUBLIC health
- Publication
Law & Policy, 2005, Vol 27, Issue 3, p472
- ISSN
0265-8240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9930.2005.00208.x