ABSTRACT
Subjectivity appears to be an acknowledged component of the theories, with the status of the observer, and the act of observation, having a determining effect on the results. Where data do not exist concerning the probabilities of certain kinds of failures, the attempt to prevent certain cataclysmic events from ever occurring involves acts of foresight and imagination as much as 'science'. Furthermore, the degree of looseness or fuzziness introduced by contemporary views of science appear to be properties of the world, and to have implications for what people regard as useful knowledge. However, in the human sciences analogous types of relativity effects are common and of immense importance. The implications of the quantum theory analogy for the human sciences must surely be obvious. Safety reports are motivated; people report things because they want something to happen on the basis of their report, they are not simply dispassionate descriptions.
