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Exhibition (2):Table created by P.Katsakiori et al(2009),Safety Science 47 (1007-1015)
Tripod Incident Analysis Methodology
Accidents or Incidents are unpleasant events of a kind that no one wishes to continue speaking about,
after they have occurred. In High Risk Entities at least, there is a growing tension of investigators
struggling to uncover real

and latent “Causes” that had led to them. The primary reason for doing so

had always been the need of human nature to move further down, rather than just continuing picking
up

the easy selection, that of casting blame upon the most obvious victims, instead

of bringing over

catharsis, by letting fresh air come in, from new concepts and new investigation methodologies.
What is the TRIPOD Incident& Accident Analysis Methodology?
The birth of the “Safety Culture” era and its dominance over the previous “Socio-technical Period” in
accident causation had forever altered the prevailing axioms that permeate accident investigation. In
Safety Culture Era, it is fundamental that humans form groups and carry common characteristics that
play a substantially important role into the way that accidents are created and therefore investigation
moves down to organisational issues rather than just apportioning blame to certain humans.
Therefore, Tripod methodology lies into the new advents and fresh tools segment, which aims to
pinpoint and analyze the reasons of failure of a Barrier, via the application of the Human Behavior
model. That is why this Analysis looks at what had caused the sequence of events in an incident, the
sequence of events themselves, how the incident happened and also what Barriers had failed, no
matter if they had been in place or not.

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