Explaining Reason’s Swiss Cheese Epidemiological or Latent Failure Model

The “Swiss Cheese” model developed by James Reason is an example of the epidemiological model.  This is a complex, linear cause-and-effect model where accidents are seen as the result of a combination of

  • active failures (unsafe acts) and
  • latent conditions (unsafe conditions)

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