Accident Analysis & Safety Links

Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow

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General | Specific Tools | Standards | Human Factors | Professional Organisations | Regulators | Occupational Health and Safety | Accident Investigators | Incident Reporting | Special Investigations | Courses | Research | Others

My Handbook on Accident and Incident Reporting

• Chris Johnson's safety systems course.
• Comp.risks
• The Darwin Awards
• NASA HQ Documents (including Polar Lander/Climate Orbiter Incident Reports)
• NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance
• Safety-Critical Systems WWW Virtual Library
• safety-critical@cs.york.ac.uk archive
• safety-critical@cs.york.ac.uk archive (Jan '02 on)
• UK Road Traffic Safety Statistics
• UK HSE Directorate of Science and Technology
• UK Safety Critical Systems Club
• US Safety Critical Systems Club
• US Larence Livermore Web-Based Hazard Control Training
• US NTSB Data Services
• US NASA Technical reports Server
• US Army Safety Program
• York Dependability Reference Database

Specific Techniques/Tools

• Cockpit/Crew Resource Management
  • Industry Crew Resource Management, Developers' Organisation
  • FAA Aviation Crew Resource Management Guide
  
  
• Expert Systems
  • HSE Report: Industrial use of safety-related expert systems
  
  
• Formal Methods
  • NASA Langley
  • WWW Virtual Library Formal Methods
  • Formal Methods Education Repository
  
  
• HAZOP
  • Univ of Teeside HAZOP pages
  
  
• FMEA/FMECA
  • FMEA Info Center
  • FMEA.COM
  • Automobile Industry Action Group
  • Datakel FMEA Software
  
  
• MORT
  • US Department of Energy, Technical Research and Analysis Centre
  • Hazard and Barrier Analysis Guidance Document
  
  
• PRA
  • Arnold Barnett (MIT), How numbers are tricking you
  • International Association for Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management
  • Martin Sefton's Introduction to the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
  • NASA Risk Management guidelines
  
  
• Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS)/Software Of Uncertain Pedigree (SOUP)
  • European COTS User Working Group
  • UK HSE: Methods for Assessing Integrity of SOUP
  • UK HSE: Justifying use of SOUP
  
  
• Flight/Ship Data Recorders
  • 1999 NTSB Conference on Transportation Data Recorders
  
  
• Guidance on Tool Use
  • IEE Guidance on the Adopton of Tools in Safety-related Software
  • European nuclear regulators on licensing of safety critical software for nuclear reactors
  • FAA Guidance on Use of Object Oriented techniques
  • Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes
  • FAA Guidance on Tool Use
  • TUV Guide on use of C in safety-critical applications
  • PLC Professional Association
  • HIFA Guidance on Human Factors Tools (ATC)
  
  
• Safety Cases
  • Adelard's introduction to safety cases
  • UK HSE Criteria for Railway Safety Cases

Sources for Standards

• US DODSSP Home Page
• UK MOD Integrated Logistics Support
• International Electrotechnical Commission
• IEEE
• FAA Certification Group
• Comments and criticisms of IEC 61508
• ERA/DTI APES project on 61508
• Australian DEF(AUST)5679 Standard
• RTCA
• US MIL-STD-882D (software development)
• US Joint Military Software System Safety Handbook

Human Factors

Cognitive Task Analysis
• FAA Human Factors Group
• NASA Fatigue Countermeasures
• NASA TLX pages
• TLX Manual
• Ergonomics Society
• Human factors and Ergonomics Society
• NASA Ames Human Factors Research
• Defence Standard 00-25 (Pt 13) Human factors for designers of equipment
• Gerald Wilde's Risk Homeostasis
• Psychology of Programming Interest Group

Professional Organisations & Publications

• Corporate Insurance and Risk
• Dependability Society
• Hazards Forum
• IEE Rail Industry Group
• Safety Systems Society
• Safety and Reliability Society
• NASA's summary of Computers in Spaceflight
• Serco Assurance (e-SRDA)

Accident Investigation

• My Handbook on Accident and Incident Reporting

• Australian Transport Safety Bureau
• Canadian Transportation Safety Board
• Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses pour la securite de l'aviation civile
• Irish Air Accident Investigation Unit
• New Zealand Transport Accident Investigation Commission
• Swedish Board of Accident Investigation
• UK Air Accident Investigation Board
• UK Marine Accident Investigation Board
• US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
• US NTSB National Transportation Safety Board

Occupational Health and Safety

• Australian National Occupational Health and Safety Commission
• European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
• Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
• Indian Occupational Safety and Health Information Network
• The Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Sweden
• US Occupational Safety and Health Asministration (OSHA)
• UK Health and Safety Executive
• UK HSE Consultative Documents

Regulatory Agencies

• French Direction Generale de I'Aviation Civile
• Irish Health and Safety Authority
• UK Civil Aviation Authority
• UK Department of Environment, Transport and Regions (Martitime)
• UK Health and Safety Executive
• UK Office of the Rail Regulator
• US Federal Aviation Administration
• US Federal Railway Administration
• US Food and Drug Administration
• US Maritime Administration

Incident Reporting

• My Handbook on Accident and Incident Reporting

• Tools
  • BASIS
  • PROACT
  • Reason Causal Analysis Tools
  • Sentinel Event System
  
  
• Aviation
  • Australian Confidential Aviation Incident Reporting
  • BASIS
  • European Confidential Aviation Safety Reporting
  • EUROCONTROL HEIDI - Harmonisation of European Incident Definition Initiative for ATM
  • European Turbulent Wake Incident Reporting System
  • REC : Recueil d'Evenements Confidentiel
  • Global Aviation Information Network (GAIN)
  • Harmonisation of European Incident Definition Initiative for ATM
  • KAIRS (Korea Confidential Aviation Incident Reporting System).
  • TACARE (Taiwan Confidential Aviation Safety Reporting System).
  • UK Airprox Board
  • UK Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Programme
  • US Airforce Investigation Guidelines (AFI91-204)
  • US Aviation Safety Reporting System (From January 2000)
  
  
• Leisure-Related Industries
  • British Hyperbaric Association (Diving)
  
  
• Maritime
  • CASMET: Causality Analysis Methodology for Maritime Operations
  • Hong Kong Reporting System
  • International Maritime Human Element Forum
  • Japanese Maritime Accidents Inquiry Agency IMO Reports
  • Marine Accident Investigators International Forum
  • Det Norske Veritas (SYNERGI)
  • US Navy/George Sharp Site
  • US Coast Guard International Maritime Information Safety System
  • US Coast Guard Office of Investigation and Analysis
  • US National Maritime Incident Reporting System
  
  
• Medical
  • Australian Patient Safety Foundation (AIMS)
  • Genie project
  • Intravenous Incident Reporting Network.
  • Swiss Anaesthesia Incident Reporting System
  • UK Medical Devices Agency
  • UK NHS An organisation with a memory
  • UK National Patient Safety Agency
  • UK Royal College of Anaesthetists, Critical Incident Reporting
  • US FDA Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database
  • US National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention
  • US National Patient Safety Foundation
  • US Joint Commission on Accrediation of Healthcare organisations (Sentinel System)
  
  
• Military
  • Canadian Vice Chief of Defence Staff Safety Digest
  • Canadian Defence lessons Learned
  • Singapore Army Safety Site
  • UN Peacekeeping Lessons Learned
  • UK RAF Inspectorate of Flight safety
  • US Army Safety organisation
  • US Center for Army Lessons Learned
  • US Center for Army Engineering Lessons Learned
  • US Army Technical Centre for Explosives, Safety Bulletin
  
  
• Process Industries
  • European Process Safety Centre Incident Reporting
  • IAEA (Nuclear) Incident Reporting System
  • IAEA (Nuclear) Incident Reporting Database
  • UK Institute of Chemical Engineers, Incident Reporting Training
  • US DoE CAIRS - Causal Analysis System
  
  
• Rail
  • CIRAS, University of Strathclyde.
  • European Rail Traffic Management System
  • National CIRAS System
  • Railway Safety Databases
  • UK HSE Safety Case Requirements for Rail Incident Reporting
  • UK Railway Safety
  • US FRA Safety office
  • US FTA Lessons Learned
  
  
• Space
  • European Space Agency Lessons Learned Systems
  • NASA Safety Reporting System
  • NASA Office of Logic Design
  
  
• Others
  • Omnisafe
  • UK Major Hazard Incidents Data Service (MHIDAS)
  • US Consumer Product Safety Incident Report
  • US Govmt-Industry Data Exchange Program
  • US Navy Lessons Learnt Site
  • US Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Incident Reporting Programme
  • US National Renewable Energy Lab Incident Reporting Program
  • Yale Risk Management Handbook - Incident Reporting

Accident Reporting and Special Investigations

• Aeronautical Accident Database
• Air Traffic Services Working Group, ISASI, Guidance notes for investigators.
• Ludwig Benner's Accident Investigation Roundtable
• British Medical Journal Special edition on Human Error and Medecine
• Emergency Medecine Special Edition on Errors in Emergency Medecine
• European Major Accident Hazards Bureau
• European Council's Seveso I and II Directives
• RAND report into the NTSB
  • NTSB pages
  • Washington Post reaction
  • CNN coverage
• An Organisation with a Memory (Incident reporting in UK NHS)
• US Institute of Medicine, To Err is Human
• US Occupational Safety and Health Asministration (OSHA) Accident Investigation Search
• US OSHA Small Business Guidance on Accident Investigation
• Workshop on Human Error and Clinical Systems
• CAA Mobile Phone Report

Other On-line Courses

• Anthony Finkelstein's Introduction to Software Engineering, UCL.
• Philip Koopman's, Dependability courses, CMU.

Research Teams/Projects

• City University, Centre for Software Reliability
• Cranfield College of Aeronautics
• Dependable System Architecture Group, SRI
• IRC Dependability of Computer-Based Systems
• Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen
• Glasgow Accident Analysis Group
• Monash University Accident Research Centre
• NATS R&D Group
• EPSRC Risk and Design Network
• Software safety research at MIT
• Technical University of Berlin, Systems Safety centre
• University of Bath, Centre for Regulated Industries
• Univ. of Bielefeld, Network and Distributed Systems group
• Univ. of Bristol, Safety Systems Research Centre
• Univ. of Maryland, National Information Center for Reliability Engineering
• University of Texas, Human Factors Research Project
• Univ. of Newcastle, Centre for Software Reliability.
• Univ. of York, High Integrity Systems Engineering group.

Others

• Aviation safety
• FAA Office of System Safety
• International Civil Aviation Organisation
• Jane's Defence Publications
• US Naval Surface Warfare Center
• General Investigatory Information Resource