Organizational Errors and Individual Errors: Perspective on Accident Causation
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عنوان ژورنال: DEStech Transactions on Economics, Business and Management
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2475-8868
DOI: 10.12783/dtem/ssemr2019/30893