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In this article we focus only on incident investigation conducted (internally) by companies themselves. In many countries inspectorates, accident research boards, or criminal prosecutors may investigate some or all of the serious occupational incidents that occur. Government agencies may or may not be involved in the investigation and analysis of events. Previously overlooked weaknesses of safety management or safety culture may be uncovered, as well as underestimated risks, unknown risks or insufficient control over known risks. A thorough accident or incident investigation may uncover a wealth of knowledge about safety management practices in the organisation.

After a major incident or accident, conducting an accident investigation is generally the next step. However, despite these efforts things still go wrong and unintended events occur. Many organisations and companies take extensive proactive measures to identify, evaluate and reduce occupational risks.

3.2 Choosing which incidents to investigate.

This will be proposed as an integrating framework for the causative factors of accidents. In this chapter, existing theories on accident causation will be discussed, their shortcomings will be shown and a new theory will be proposed. For complex systems, inadaptability sometimes arises as an emergent feature. In a word, accident causation phenomenon can be put into the framework of the Inadaptability Theory. Thus increased inadaptability (or decreased adaptability) leads to accident. Psychological oddity factors like stress, depression, distraction, substance abuse and worries decrease adaptability of an employee or a host whereas a normal person may be inadaptable to degrading environment, corroding machine parts and bad weather or bad time. Accidents happen because of the reduction in adaptable capabilities or because inadaptability takes over. Therefore, inadaptability is the failure to adapt according to changed circumstances, settings or time. Scott ISBN: 978-1-53611-825-4) Adaptability is the ability to adjust. ISBN: 978-1-53611-825-4 (It is the first chapter in the book HUMAN ERROR: PREVENTIVE MEASURES, ANALYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES edited by G. On the other hand, in order to develop and advance in the application of occupational accident investigation techniques, it would be advisable to promote studies that verify the proper selection and use of methodologies in real cases of occupational accidents.

This study reveals that, even to this day, there are not many methodologies available with a single focus on the field of occupational health and safety. A total of 35 different methodologies were identified. This study describes which methodologies have been used the most in the field of occupational accident investigations. These methodologies cover different areas of application, qualities and limitations, with the understanding that a thorough accident investigation requires a combination of different activities included in these methods. The results of this review show that many different investigation methodologies have been developed over the last few decades. Then, to assess the importance of these methodologies, we analyzed the number of times the selected publications are cited and the impact factor of the journal where it was published.

To achieve the objective set we used a method that has already been implemented and validated, consisting of an extensive review of international scientific literature related to the methodologies for investigating accidents in occupational health and safety. The objective of this paper is to review the main studies published on occupational accidents to recognize, classify and describe the scientific methodologies used.