scholarly journals Looking Beyond People, Equipment and Environment: Is a Systems Theory Model of Accident Causation Required to Understand Injuries and Near Misses During Outdoor Activities?

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1125-1131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natassia Goode ◽  
Paul M. Salmon ◽  
Michael G. Lenné ◽  
Caroline F. Finch
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Theory Model ◽  
Near Misses ◽  
Outdoor Activities ◽  
Accident Causation

The Holon/Parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme)

2018 ◽  
pp. 1590-1627
Author(s):  
J. T. Velikovsky
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Theory Model ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Evolutionary Systems ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Definition Of

A universal problem in the disciplines of communication, creativity, philosophy, biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, history, linguistics, information science, cultural studies, literature, media and other domains of knowledge in both the arts and sciences has been the definition of ‘culture' (see Kroeber & Kluckhohn, 1952; Baldwin et al., 2006), including the specification of ‘the unit of culture', and, mechanisms of culture. This chapter proposes a theory of the unit of culture, or, the ‘meme' (Dawkins, 1976; Dennett, 1995; Blackmore, 1999), a unit which is also the narreme (Barthes, 1966), or ‘unit of story', or ‘unit of narrative'. The holon/parton theory of the unit of culture (Velikovsky, 2014) is a consilient (Wilson, 1998) synthesis of (Koestler, 1964, 1967, 1978) and Feynman (1975, 2005) and also the Evolutionary Systems Theory model of creativity (Csikszentmihalyi, 1988-2014; Simonton, 1984-2014). This theory of the unit of culture potentially has applications across all creative cultural domains and disciplines in the sciences, arts and communication media.

scholarly journals Analysis of Port Accidents and Calibration of Heinrich’s Pyramid

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812110444
Author(s):  
Arnab Majumdar ◽  
Iulia Manole ◽  
Ryan Nalty
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Maritime Industry ◽  
Near Misses ◽  
Severe Accidents ◽  
Reporting Requirements ◽  
Accident Causation ◽  
Accident Data ◽  
Lower Ratio ◽  
First Time

Academics and the maritime industry have used the Heinrich Pyramid for decades to justify overall safety theory, risk assessments, and accident prevention strategies. Most use Heinrich’s original severity ratios (1:29:300) for accident causation development in a factory setting. However, to use the Pyramid effectively and mitigate risks/hazards, it must be calibrated to represent specific industry reality. This paper, for the first time, focuses on calibration of Heinrich’s Pyramid to maritime accident data, using databases from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch of the Department for Transport. This research clusters five years (2013–2017) of accident data, using K-Means clustering on categorical variables and severity levels of accidents, similar logic to Heinrich’s analysis. This approach and descriptive statistics provide new ratios between accident severity classifications for casualties with a ship (CS) and occupational accidents (OAs) separately. Results show that the data do not appear to fall into Heinrich’s Pyramid shape and yield a vastly different and lower ratio to that of Heinrich’s. Especially concerning was that Very Serious and Serious accidents occurred at a 1:5 ratio for CS and 4:1 for OA, very different from Heinrich’s 1:29. Although these results calculated a new ratio, it may not represent reality owing to accident reporting requirements under UK law, a lack of an agreed taxonomy of risk and hazard definitions, and likely underreporting of less severe accidents. This is proven because, in 2017, CS data became pyramid shaped, after a decrease in the number of accidents and a 17% increase in near-misses.

scholarly journals Understanding accident causation in led outdoor activities: development of an accident analysis framework

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. A240.1-A240
Author(s):  
PM Salmon ◽  
N Goode ◽  
MG Lenné ◽  
C Finch ◽  
E Cassell
Keyword(s):  
Accident Analysis ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Outdoor Activities ◽  
Accident Causation

The Holon/Parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme)

2016 ◽  
pp. 208-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. Velikovsky
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Theory Model ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Evolutionary Systems ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Definition Of

A universal problem in the disciplines of communication, creativity, philosophy, biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, history, linguistics, information science, cultural studies, literature, media and other domains of knowledge in both the arts and sciences has been the definition of ‘culture' (see Kroeber & Kluckhohn, 1952; Baldwin et al., 2006), including the specification of ‘the unit of culture', and, mechanisms of culture. This chapter proposes a theory of the unit of culture, or, the ‘meme' (Dawkins, 1976; Dennett, 1995; Blackmore, 1999), a unit which is also the narreme (Barthes, 1966), or ‘unit of story', or ‘unit of narrative'. The holon/parton theory of the unit of culture (Velikovsky, 2014) is a consilient (Wilson, 1998) synthesis of (Koestler, 1964, 1967, 1978) and Feynman (1975, 2005) and also the Evolutionary Systems Theory model of creativity (Csikszentmihalyi, 1988-2014; Simonton, 1984-2014). This theory of the unit of culture potentially has applications across all creative cultural domains and disciplines in the sciences, arts and communication media.

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