In my opinion, trying to identify who is 'responsible' for an organisational accident is equivalent to trying to identify who is to blame, which is not conducive to understanding how and why such events occur and how recurrences can be prevented. I think the goal should always be to identify where opportunities for prevention and improvement lie. In this case, all employees are human and will occasionally make mistakes, and they are only as proficient as their training and experience allow. However, organisations can reduce the chances of workers making errors that lead to accidents (and can reduce the negative consequences when such errors are made) by ensuring that they have effective selection processes, training, supervision, resources and staff numbers, procedures, equipment, interfaces, policies, etc, and that they have an appropriate balance between safety and efficiency goals. I think that it is difficult in practice for regulators to assess the quality of these processes very effectively, but they certainly should have the responsibility to intervene if any of these processes appear deficient, and the government needs to provide sufficient resources and appropriate legislation to assist the regulator to do so. Therefore, I'd say that, aside from cases of sabotage, intentional rule-breaking or negligence etc on the part of individual workers, the opportunities for improvement lie at the levels of the organisation, regulatory system and government, and not a the level of the individual involved.

Ur question is asking for who is 'mostly responsible' . This implies that all the stakeholders on OHS are responsible. In my own opinion, it's really difficult to say who is mostly responsible for accidents in the workplace. As we know that there are various factors that cause accidents in the workplace. One can't really give a general answer. It depends on a case-by-case situation, the safety culture and OHS management system in place, and also the government of the country. As to this, I will say all the stakeholders (government, employers and employees) share responsibilities. It's left for each stakeholder to play his part proactively..

Roland: I have just finished reading the paper you shared on organizational error. It was insightful. Individuals playing roles within an organizational context; making decisions that reflects on the organization (conforming or not conforming to set rules, procedures or regulations). Also employers carrying out due due diligence, set rules and procedures, encourage safe work system, encourage and enforce compliance......

Thanks for sharing it. I have further learnt more lessons from the paper.

The accidents in the work place have their origin in every agent in the systems. Either for create dangerous conditions or do unsafe acts. I believe that the distinction between employers and employees leads to increased levels of unconsciousness about health and safety.

There are several sources of responsibilities . One is the head of company second the government who should control all companies

In my opinion, employees who are 'careless' or 'ignorant' are responsible to an extent, this is because as an employee, workplace safety should be prioritized but that does not mean that the greedy employers that you mentioned are not responsible. They could be held accountable for workplace accidents too but they, like the employees could not be totally blamed. Employees and employers should work out a solution together to reduce workplace accidents and create a safer work environment.

I believe everyone is responsible for accident i.e. employees as well as employers. Any kind of accident can only be possible to avoid if we know the consequences of their adverse effect.

We cannot blame on one or two persons in case of any accident. For that we must have to carry out detail investigation base on the task, number of employees involved, potential associated hazards, implemented controls and etc....Then we can point out someone....hope it will help.