Taxonomies and Severity Scales
Incident Learning Systems
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Investigation
Causal
Analysis
Preventive
Actions
Learning
Radiation
Treatment
Program
Incident
Identification
and Response
Reporting
Incident
Learning
System
Taxonomies (i.e.
classification schemes) limit
the choices of incident
descriptions to a specified
vocabulary.
A taxonomy is a
classification of something
Taxonomies are intended to
address the issue of
ambiguity
.




