ABSTRACT
In his career as an accident analyst the author has looked at hundreds of accidents, from very small, like the cook on an offshore platform cutting his thumb when peeling potatoes, to the loss of entire platforms. The area of interest ranged from police shooting accidents, patients dying in intensive care wards, submarine and other shipping accidents, to accidents in chemical plants, energy production plants, refineries and the entire range of oil exploration and production. None of the accidents occurred without the essential contribution of human behaviour; which supports the first assumption.
