Accidents happen to those at the right place and the right time
Reason’s Swiss Cheese Model has been instrumental in explaining how adverse events occur in domains ranging from aviation to healthcare. According to the accident causation model, accidents happen when defences within a system fail to prevent the accident causation process from progressing, and s...
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2016
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| Institution: | Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia |
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| Summary: | Reason’s Swiss Cheese Model has been instrumental in explaining how adverse
events occur in domains ranging from aviation to healthcare. According to the
accident causation model, accidents happen when defences within a system fail
to prevent the accident causation process from progressing, and such failures are
commonly due to active failures such as mistakes in diagnosis and latent
conditions, for example bed shortages and budget cuts. Furthermore, the model
suggests that for an accident to occur, the active failures and latent conditions
must be interconnected, and the model illustrates this concatenation as an
alignment of holes in different layers of Swiss Cheese. That the alignment of
holes can occur randomly is incoherent to Islamic teachings because it, among
others, excludes God’s role in the accident causation process. The implication of
this is that victims of accidents may see themselves as being unlucky, whereas
from an Islamic perspective, success and failure in accident prevention or evasion
are tests from God the Most Merciful. To some, that accident is from God the
Most Merciful seems contradictory. Because of that, this paper shall discuss the
Islamic view of accident causation process with reference to Reason’s Swiss
Cheese Model and number of ayat from the Quran. |
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