The Swiss Cheese Model, published twenty years ago to understand why accidents happen and how to prevent them, is a systems approach that recognizes human fallibility and builds layers of defense ...

Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align — like the holes in cheese — to create a recipe for disaster. By Michael S. Rosenwald The story of how James ...

The "Swiss cheese" theory argues that crashes are often ... communications, and human factors," Anthony Brickhouse, an aviation safety associate professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ...