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Swiss Cheese Model

Tom Geraghty · Safety & Human Error, Models & Critique

Introduces James Reason's Swiss Cheese Model. Argues the model is useful for communicating layered defence but can, if applied uncritically, encourage a linear, Safety I view of failure that misrepresents the complexity of how accidents actually happen.

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