It is part of accident investigation or incident investigation. These analyses may be performed by a range of experts, including forensic scientists, forensic engineers or health and safety advisers. Accident investigators, particularly those in the aircraft industry, are colloquially known as "tin-kickers".[1] Health and safety and patient safety professionals prefer using the term "incident" in place of the term "accident". Its retrospective nature means that accident
It is an undesirable, incidental, and unplanned event that could have been prevented had circumstances leading up to the accident
incident" in place of the term "accident". Its retrospective nature means that accident analysis is primarily an exercise of directed explanation; conducted using the theories or methods the analyst has to hand,
