A systems approach to examining disaster response: Using Accimap to describe the factors influencing bushfire response

‘Remixing Rasmussen’: The evolution of Accimaps within systemic accident analysis

“…In this section we focus on two aspects of this evolution or 'remixing' process which relate to the theoretical and practical aspects of systemic accident analysis. where application of the system approach has little precedence (e.g., studies 2,4,6,7,8,10,11,21). In recent and as yet unpublished work, for example, we have used Accimaps as a means to demonstrate the complexity of accident causation in public safety (food safety) and maritime accidents (shipping collisions -Nayak and Waterson, in preparation; Murray et al, submitted).…”

“…A systems-based approach to young driver road safety 19 Lei et al (2014) An integrated graphic-taxonomic-associative approach to analyze human factors in aviation accidents 20 Trotter et al (2014) Impromaps: Applying Rasmussen's Risk Management Framework to improvisation incidents 21 Salmon et al (2014) A systems approach to examining disaster response: Using Accimap to describe the factors influencing bushfire response 22 Harvey and Stanton (2014) Safety in System-of-Systems: Ten key challenges 23 Tabinzadeh and Meshkati (2015) Applying the AcciMap methodology to investigate a major accident in offshore drilling: a systematic risk management framework for oil and gas industry 24 Fan et al (2015) Analysis for Yangmingtan bridge collapse.…”

Merits of using a socio-technical system perspective and different industrial accident investigation methods on accidents following natural hazards – A case study on pluvial flooding of a Swedish railway tunnel 2013

“…The flow of information and decisions taken at one layer have affect elsewhere in the organization. Each tier is involved in decisions that will affect the whole, top-down functionality [12,29]. Changes in society contribute to a faster pace of changes, with a more aggressive pressure on organizations.…”

“…Technological and regulatory change put further pressure on the system [30,12,8]. Without feedback loops of information from the lower management levels, decisions cannot be filled with useful abilities to perform better and safer, or keep control over processes [29]. Rasmussen [12] argues for a close-loop feedback system enables an understanding of the context and the boundaries of a system.…”

Study on the Accident-causing Model Based on Safety Region and Applications in China Railway Transportation System

“…The systems approach addresses the notion that safety is an emergent property, which arises from non-linear interactions between multiple components across complex system and the relationship of behaviors implicated in operation [6]. In systemic safety models, the accident process is described as a complex and interconnected network of events to model the dynamics of complex systems [7].…”