After the event : from accident to organisational learning / edited by Andrew Hale, Bernhard Wilpert, and Matthias Freitag.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Structure of event analysis / Matthias Freitag and Andrew Hale -- Event analysis and responsibility in complex systems / Jacques Leplat -- Organisational epidemiology : a tool for investigating organisational factors related to the occurrence and prevention of accidental chemical releases / Isadore Rosenthal -- The effect of the accident inquiry process within the railway industry / David Maidment -- Accident scenarios as a tool for safety management systems from the analysis of aircraft ramp accidents / Nick McDonald -- Event analysis as problem solving process / Babette Fahlbruch and Bernhard Wilpert -- Using MORT to generate organisational feedback from single accidents at work / Floor Koorneef and Andrew Hale --Shame, blame and liability : why safety management suffers organisational learning disabilities / Michael Baram -- Major event analysis in the United States chemical industry / Isadore Rosenthal -- Event analysis and regulation : are we able to discover organisational factors? / Gerhard Becker -- Responding to public criticism of safety management systems : is the response always effective and appropriate? / David Maidment.