Incorporating management and organisational factors

This paper is concerned with how management and organisational influences can be factored into risk assessments. A case study from the rail transportation sector illustrates how organisational factors can act as high level influences which are manifest as operational errors giving rise to major accidents.

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This paper is concerned with how management and organisational influences can be factored into risk assessments.

A case study from the rail transportation sector illustrates how organisational factors can act as high-level influences which are manifest as operational errors giving rise to major accidents.

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