Pro-active safety management: Application and evaluation within a rail context

Edkins, Graham; Pollock, Clare

doi:10.1016/s0925-7535(96)00027-6

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“…The most common sequence observed was that of inadequate inspections resulting in misaligned or unstable track going unnoticed, resulting in derailment. This finding is consistent with that which emerged from the Australian checklist study (Edkins and Pollock, 1996, see Section 2) and suggests that an improvement to Australian maintenance procedures is necessary to bring about a reduction in incidents and accidents, in particular, a reduction in the number of derailments.…”

Section: Hfacs Analysissupporting

confidence: 88%

“…In the one reported Australian study investigating accident causation, the authors aimed to identify the latent failures (i.e. managerial deficiencies) most likely to be involved in accidents in the Australian public rail authority (Edkins and Pollock, 1996). Focus groups were initially held with drivers and management to identify railway problem factors influencing rail safety.…”

Section: Previous Research: Error and Accident Causationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A railway safety checklist, requiring respondents to rate the extent to which each factor had been a problem in carrying out their job, was then constructed and distributed to train drivers. Three factors were identified as the most serious problems, most likely to contribute to Australian rail accident occurrence: Staff attitude, operating equipment and maintenance (Edkins and Pollock, 1996).…”

Section: Previous Research: Error and Accident Causationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding the human factors contribution to railway accidents and incidents in Australia

Baysari

McIntosh

Wilson

2008

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Section: Hfacs Analysissupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Previous Research: Error and Accident Causationmentioning

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McIntosh

Wilson

2008

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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“…The concept of pro-activity has two meanings in literature: In the safetymanagement literature it is still often used in a restricted way to denote a sort of alternative for preventive or future-oriented action (see Booth 1992: 5; Edkins and Pollock 1996;Frick et al 2000: 81, 393;Jensen 2001: 68). In the management-development literature pro-activity has quite a different emphasis (Adams 1984;Nelson and Burns 1989;Covey 1989).…”

Section: The Essential Meaning and The Fundamental Importance Of A Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a New Philosophy in the Prevention Strategy on Health and Safety at Work

Kerckhove¹

2006

European Journal of Social Quality

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The current prevention policy continues to be reactive. It is even negative and demotivating. This atmosphere is destroying the working conditions we need in our new social-economic environment. Quality of work has become top of the agenda together with creativity, personal development and involvement. The human being is transformed from a potential source of disturbance into an essential success factor. A new approach to prevention policy is imposing itself in this context. Caring for safety, health and well-beiing of the employees at the same time means caring for the well-beiing and the future of the organization. The great challenge now becomes the development of the human potential. In that perspective a real proactive prevention policy is needed. Proactivity implies prevention but goes much further. Real proactivity refers to the dreams and positive objectives people wish to see realised. Well-being, participation and empowerment of all participants are important targets while the expected implications for culture are commitment, trust and open communication. This approach is very close to the conditional factors of social quality as described in the report of the European Foundation on the European Network Indicators of Social Quality.

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“…Ref. 15). In addition, the Reason model also incorporates many features of other models of human error and failure, e.g.…”

Section: The Reason Latent Failure Modelmentioning

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Airspace safety in New Zealand: A causal analysis of controller caused airspace incidents between 1994-2002

Majumdar

Ochieng

Nalder³

2004

Aeronaut. j.

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The New Zealand Government takes airspace safety very seriously. The level of safety in New Zealand airspace is measured by the number of recorded airspace incidents. An airspace incident can be thought of as a failure in the chain of operations in the air traffic system when it is provided with an air traffic service (ATS). Some of these incidents result in a loss of separation between aircraft, varying from slight to a very serious loss with a significant risk of collision, known as a near collision. New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) identifies the causal factors for all airspace incidents using the Reason model of human error, divided into three areas; active failures committed by individuals involved in the incident, local factors relating to the task and the ATS environment and organisational factors originating in the managerial and organisation spheres of the ATS provider. Based upon the CAA's database, this paper analyses trends in controller caused incidents in the NZ airspace during the period 1994 to 2002 in six controller caused categories.The results indicate that for controller caused incidents, execution errors dominate the active failures category, while in the case of local factors, poor concentration/lack of attention, inadequate checking and controller workload are the dominant factors. For the organisation category, poor planning and inadequate control and monitoring dominate. These results should form the basis of a robust and transparent framework for intervention mechanisms by the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority for enhanced airspace safety.

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Pro-active safety management: Application and evaluation within a rail context

Cited by 15 publications

References 4 publications

Understanding the human factors contribution to railway accidents and incidents in Australia

Understanding the human factors contribution to railway accidents and incidents in Australia

Towards a New Philosophy in the Prevention Strategy on Health and Safety at Work

Airspace safety in New Zealand: A causal analysis of controller caused airspace incidents between 1994-2002

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