Swiss Cheese Model

Whose model is the Swiss Cheese model?

(Name of person who proposed this model)

• Frank Hawkins

• James Reason

• Patrick Hudson

• Ivanka Trump

The Swiss Cheese Model is used in risk analysis and risk management.

• True

• False

Reason's model is used in:

• Healthcare

• Aerospace

• Engineering

• All of the listed industries and more

Latent failures

• encompass the unsafe acts that can be directly linked to an accident, such as a navigation error

• encompass the unsafe acts that can be indirectly linked to an accident, such as a navigation error

• include contributory factors that may lie dormant for days, weeks, or months until they contribute to the accident

• include contributory factors that may lie dormant for days until they contribute to the accident

Active failures

• encompass the unsafe acts that can be directly linked to an accident, such as a navigation error

• encompass the unsafe acts that can be indirectly linked to an accident, such as a navigation error

• include contributory factors that may lie dormant for days, weeks, or months until they contribute to the accident

• include contributory factors that may lie dormant for days, weeks, or months until they contribute to the accident

The four domains of the model are

• • organisational influences

  • unsafe supervision

  • preconditions for unsafe acts and

  • specific safe acts

• • organisational influences

  • safe supervision

  • preconditions for unsafe acts and

  • specific unsafe acts

• • gravitational influences

  • unsafe supervision

  • preconditions for unsafe acts and

  • specific unsafe acts

• • organisational influences

  • unsafe supervision

  • preconditions for unsafe acts and

  • specific unsafe acts

Who likes Swiss Cheese?

• People with good taste

• Martians

• Wallace

• Grommit

Violations are

• unsafe acts

• a wilful disregard of the rules and regulations

• errors

• exceptional

Errors can be:

• skill-based

• decision

• perception

• all of the above