on the general theme of why accidents happen, some academics adopt a human psychology approach to causation to causation-such as Reason's(1990)study of human error and his development of the generic modelling system. In contrast, others take an organizational approach. For instance,Turner (1979,1994) accepts that accidents are often sparked by a technical,failure,but believes that they are amplified by the institutional,adminstrative and organnizational context within which they occur. Whilst theorists have sought to understand why acccidents happen, the real task of risk management is to develop strategies to prevent or minimize these for individual organizational.