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ACCIDENT PREVENTION STRATEGIES: CAUSATION MODEL AND RESEARCH DIRECTIONS Panagiotis Mitropoulos, Gregory A. Howell, and Tariq S. Abdelhamid ABSTRACT This paper presents an accident causation model that identifies the production system factors affecting the accident process, and proposes accident prevention strategies. The model builds on descriptive rather than prescriptive theories of work behavior and acknowledges the inevitability of exposures and errors. It also focuses on the operation as the level of analysis—that is, it focuses on the factors that influence the number of accidents d