Ron presented a small portion of this material recently at the Alaska Governor's Safety and Health Conference. He was far and away the most popular speaker both because he has an extremely engaging presentation style and because he presents a fresh view of traditional safety thought processes. Rest assured, I will be looking out for this book to add to my personal reference library. Ron McKinnon has done an excellent job of evaluating the venerable accident sequence, expanding upon the original tenets and most importantly, detailing those upstream interventions where the vast majority of causative agents are often undervalued or overlooked completely. At one stage during our evolution, accidents were accepted as being merely part and parcel of life.
Many people are still convinced that the majority of accidents are caused by unsafe acts.
The internationally accepted measure of safety, the disabling or lost-time injury, is unreliable, as it is the end result of numerous luck factors. The book will examine the entire process that constitutes the chain reaction of an accident. Morgan, et al. Failure to Assess Risks 2. Lack of Safety Management Control 3.