- Title
- Concepts of accident causation and their role in safe design among engineering students
- Creator
- Hall, Stephen; Culvenor, John; Cowley, Stephen; Else, Dennis
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/39002
- Identifier
- vital:3328
- Abstract
- Safe design is a strong theme at present in Australia. To ‘eliminate hazards at the design stage’ is one of the five national priorities set out by the National OHS Strategy. The Australian Safety and Compensation Council have recently released both a guideline for safe design and an engineering education package. Safe design is not only about engineering decisions. Engineers are however an important group. This paper reports on a survey to evaluate perceptions of student engineers on topics relevant to the advancement of safe design including perceptions of: control versus fatalism; accident causation; and perceptions of the role played by engineers.
- Publisher
- Melbourne, Victoria : Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, the University of Melbourne
- Relation
- Paper presented at 18th conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Melbourne, Victoria : 9th-13th December 2007
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright The Authors
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 09 Engineering; Safe design; Occupational health and safety; Students; Engineers
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