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#1 Posted : 15 November 2006 22:08:00(UTC)
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Posted By PAUL TRANTER
Please can anyone let me have a copy of a practical exercise for accident investigation that I can use with a group of 10 to 12
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#2 Posted : 16 November 2006 06:51:00(UTC)
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Posted By jom
Paul,

This material might give you some ideas:-

http://72.14.253.104/sea...l=en&gl=au&ct=clnk&cd=21

Hope that long link works.

John.
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#3 Posted : 16 November 2006 07:51:00(UTC)
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Posted By FJ
jom,
Thank you for posting it on the forum so that we could all look at it.
It is an excellent link (and yes it did work!)
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#4 Posted : 16 November 2006 08:44:00(UTC)
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Posted By Andy Brazier
Some of the BBC disaster videos are good for carrying out such an exercise. The one covering the Severn Tunnel train crash is particularly good as it goes through direct causes and discusses management failures. Also, it shows failures in the incident response, again showing organisational failures.
I have used this with groups of 12. I ask them to develop a 'why tree' to explain the root causes.
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#5 Posted : 16 November 2006 09:23:00(UTC)
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Posted By Darren J Fraser
Thanks for the link, the PowerPoint presentation that accompanies the text can be found at the following link

http://www.orosha.org/ed...ing/pages/materials.html

Just scroll down the page until you find the item, there are quite a few presentations here, all based on American laws, but can be easily adapted for the UK and other countries.
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#6 Posted : 16 November 2006 10:09:00(UTC)
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Posted By Alan Hoskins
Good link Darren, hadn't found that one before.

Alan
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#7 Posted : 16 November 2006 10:17:00(UTC)
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Posted By Alan Hoskins
Andy's suggestion is a good one.

I generally introduce a made up minor accident report/investigation that could happen in our workplace, then take delegates through the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster (ppt slides).

This is followed by a video of the Kings Cross fire, after which they 'investigate' that disaster.

Strange how I tend to come up with the same root cause for a number of disasters around that time - namely the culture of the UK as driven by a certain Mrs T.

Political? Never!

Alan
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#8 Posted : 16 November 2006 10:25:00(UTC)
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Posted By jom
To All,

Paul doesn't specify the industry he works in.

I suppose certain principles of accident investigation are universal, but would it be best to use case studies that could occur within his industry? Maybe, maybe not, just thinking out loud.

John.
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#9 Posted : 16 November 2006 10:35:00(UTC)
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Posted By peter gotch
Paul

I would think of a simple accident scenario with few variables and split your delegates into two case groups to see how much consistency there is in their root cause analysis.

Regards, Peter
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