Identifying causal factors
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Identifying causal factors

  4.6 At this point the who, what, where, why, and when of the near-miss is understood, and the human errors, structural/machinery/equipment/outfitting problems, and external factors that led to the near-miss, have been identified. The next step is to better understand the causal factors that contributed to the near-miss. There are a variety of identification methods for this purpose, including taxonomies of causes. These can be used for deep probing past the most evident causes.

Parent topic: 4 The near-miss investigation process
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