That was how he arrived at his Swiss cheese model of failure, a metaphor for analyzing and preventing accidents that envisions situations in which multiple vulnerabilities in safety measures ...

The concept is adapted from the original Swiss cheese model by James Reason. The layers are represented as protective safeguards (cheese) and weaknesses (holes). When an initiating event—one that ...

This technique, which dates back several thousand years, uses micro-organisms such as yeast to make beer or wine, or bacteria ...