ABSTRACT
For too long the occupational health and safety experts solely focused on “slips, trips, and falls.” This is an important area since the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports that in 2002 37 percent of occupational injuries occurred from slips, trips, and falls (https://www.uwsp.edu/safetyloss/" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">www.uwsp.edu/safetyloss/). Today many managers and a growing number of occupational safety researchers realize that many important organizational “accidents” happen for other reasons. The purposes of this paper are to:
set the stage as to reasons it is necessary to take a different approach to organizational safety than we have seen in the past;
lay out some of the precursors to this newer approach; and
indicate where the research concerned with this newer research seems to be today.
