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Big organizations frequently make safety mistakes, sometimes making the same errors multiple times. This is true even when the outcomes are disastrous, such as an employee being killed or injured and a workers’ compensation claim being made for disability or death benefits. Recently, Safety News Alert published information on research providing new insight as to why safety errors repeatedly occur, even when companies should know better.

A Focus on Both Safety & Profitability Isn’t Possible

The study into why safety errors keep happening was conducted by the McCombs School of Business, which is the business school of the University of Texas at Austin. Researchers found companies make repeated mistakes because they go through cycles called “organizational oscillation.”

This research contradicted earlier data, which suggests companies either learn from their mistakes or fail to learn from their mistakes. If companies go through periods of organizational oscillation, they neither learn nor fail to learn from past problems. Instead, they go through cycles or learning and then of forgetting.

In the immediate aftermath of a serious mistake or a disaster, the company ends up being pushed forwards a focus on safety. Media, lobbyists groups, and government regulation can also cause companies to become more safety-focused, even if an accident does not occur.  However, a major catalyst like an employee getting badly hurt is usually a driving force leading companies to be dedicated to improving safety.

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In Phoenix, motorists in passenger cars face a significant risk of getting hurt if they become involved in a collision with a truck driver. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety indicates that 70 percent of people who die in large truck crashes are occupants of cars other than the truck. Truck drivers have a responsibility to try to protect passengers from being killed in truck collisions by operating their vehicles safely.

Trucks can get into all of the same types of collisions as any passenger car on the road. There are, however, three kinds of accidents that are either much more likely to happen in a truck or that can exclusively happen in a truck. Drivers need to be especially aware of these three kinds of crashes and must take extra precautions to prevent them because they can be among the deadliest of all truck accidents in Arizona.

Preventing Three High-Risk Types of Truck Accidents

One of the high risk types of truck accidents that truck drivers need to try to prevent is rollover accidents. Any car can rollover, but trucks are much more likely to roll over than typical passenger vehicles or even than SUVs. Trucks have a greater likelihood of rolling over because the vehicles can be top-heavy and because trucks have a high center of gravity. In many cases, trucks also aren’t loaded properly and have unbalanced loads, which makes them even more likely to rollover.

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