Ambient Multi-Causality

Ambient Multi-Causality is a concept that refers to the idea that so many 'causal factors' in the world go almost unnoticed until they interact at a specific moment in time in a very specific way to cause an accident. James Reason called these factors latent conditions.
The concept of Ambient Multi-Causality however focuses in on the human experience aspect of latent failures: they are perceived as ambient, in the background, until something really bad happens.
The concept is described here in an article about Ambient Multi-Causality Coping Disorder. It is not clear if this disease exists or is 'conceptual' but the concept behind it is clear: people unable to deal with the complex, non-linear causes in the world can cause serious accidents if they are not able to understand these complex non-lineair relationships.
An incident analysis methodology that deals with such 'human mental failures' is the Tripod Beta methodology. It refers to the identification of such human mental failures as latent failures.
The question is if Tripod Beta Training would help at all against AMCCD. There is no scientific basis for such claims.
More information can be found here:
http://tripodians.com/?p=30

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