Causal thinking in slipping and tripping accidents

Causes of slipping and tripping accidents are often expressed in terms of the lack of frictional characterises of the flooring surface; or footwear. This paper presents an initial look at the use of other mechanisms of determining the cause in a scenario based slip or trip accident by examining the stated cause against alternative causal selection strategies. The allocation of responsibility to scenario based actors is also considered with respect to general psychological models of attribution and blame.