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oratory (HSL) on behalf of the Corporate Science and Knowledge Unit, part of the Cor-porate Science and Analytical Services Directorate of HSE. The purpose of the work was to examine existing arrangements for learning lessons from incidents within UK industry and HSE, in order to enable HSE to establish a future policy for how to effectively
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