The Swiss Cheese Model of Accident Causation

When negative circumstances align, accidents happen—that’s what British psychologist James T. Reason asserts with his Swiss Cheese model of accident causation, a model used in the risk analysis and risk management of human systems. Essentially, the model, which has been applied to healthcare, aviation safety, and emergency service organizations, states that a system produces a failure when all of its “holes” momentarily line up. What are the four levels of failure set forth by Reason? Discuss

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