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 ...

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 model' is a metaphor used in risk analysis that literally looks like thin slices of yellow, holey cheese lined up in front of one another. The general analogy follows that the ...