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A depiction of Heinrich's original ratios. The accident triangle, also known as Heinrich's triangle or Bird's triangle, is a theory of industrial accident prevention. It shows a relationship between serious accidents, minor accidents and near misses.
Heinrich's classic work was refuted by a 1980 book Industrial Accident Prevention, by Nestor Roos, H Heinrich, Julienne Brown and Dan Petersen. [6]Heinrich Revisited: Truisms or Myths by Fred A. Manuele, CSP, PE [2002, ISBN 0-87912-245-5 published by National Safety Council offers the following in the last chapter.
The domino theory is a geopolitical theory which posits that changes in the political structure of one country tend to spread to neighboring countries in a domino effect. [1] It was prominent in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s in the context of the Cold War , suggesting that if one country in a region came under the influence of ...
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Domino effect accidents are an important process safety issue affecting process plants where significant amounts of hazardous materials are stored, transported, and processed. Losses of containment that result in fires or explosions can escalate to nearby equipment, due to thermal radiation, blast overpressure or other mechanisms, thus ...
Emmental cheese with eyes. When cut into slices, each slice will have holes of varying sizes and positions. In the Swiss cheese model, an organization's defenses against failure are modeled as a series of imperfect barriers, represented as slices of cheese, specifically Swiss cheese with holes known as "eyes", such as Emmental cheese.
A domino effect is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a series of similar [1] or related events, a form of chain reaction. The term is an analogy to a falling row of dominoes . It typically refers to a linked sequence of events where the time between successive events is relatively short.
In the X article "containment" not "Domino theory" was introduced Vints 19:11, 6 April 2006 (UTC) Actually, many consider the foundation of the domino theory to be Dean Acheson's "rotten apple" theory of 1947. The United States was supporting the Greek economic royalists against the Greek Communists supported by Tito of Yugoslavia.