Abstract
Several major accidents are related to the interplay of organisational properties and technology. The aim of this report is to present a set of perspectives that can help us understand the organisational mechanisms related to major accidents. Six perspectives are discussed:
1. The energy and barrier perspective
2. The theory of Normal Accidents
3. The theory of High Reliability Organisations
4. The information processing perspective
5. A decision-making perspective
6. The Resilience Engineering perspective.
The target groups of the report are researchers, students and advanced practitioners.