[Cyber Liberty]

Are you familiar with the stove pipe theory of accidents?

I'm not and a quick Google came up empty. What is it?

[mad_as_he$$]

It comes out of the current quest for safety in the petrochem world. Basically no matter how many systems or how much training an organization has it will reduce the severity of accidents but sooner or later there will be a fatality that will fall outside of the “preventable” model.

There is a lot of debate about it but there have been examples of cases where a severe injury or fatality happened with no witnesses and/or no equipment failure occurred. Essentially an admission that $hit happens even when you try to manage it out of the system.

This guy sort of gets credit starting the discussion:
http://www.balmert.com/