Bob Rummer
USDA Forest Service, Auburn, Alabama, USA
Abstract
Logging safety is a continuing problem. Developing solutions to safety problems requires an effective model of how accidents are produced by the design of logging systems. Such a model for engineering improvements must integrate human, equipment, environmental, and social factors over sufficient time to include antecedent events and management decisions which precede accidents. Various industrial safety models are reviewed and their limitations and applications to logging safety discussed.
