Risk factors for slip, trip and fall accidents (STFA) during the delivery of mail were identified using a range of accident-centred and accident-independent methods.
Accident investigation methods help to better understand the course of events and the causes leading to them.
In this paper, some selected accident investigation methods are applied to two Natech accidents in Japan on the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake along with an evaluation of the accident investigation methods with regards to the depth of the investigation results, ease of usage, applicability etc.
The increased complexity of socio-technical systems has revealed the limited contributions of existing event-based accident analysis methods on sustainable safety improvements.
Due to uncertainties in corium melt pool configuration, large CHF margin of ERVC is usually required by regulatory authorities to demonstrate reliability of severe accident mitigation methods.
This phenomenon speaks directly to the need to re-examine both safety evaluation (i.e. accident prediction) methods and design practices at highway-rail crossings.
Code of Federal Regulations and other pertinent documents such as Regulatory Guide 1.203, "Transient and Accident Analysis Methods" and NUREG-0800, "NRC Standard Review Plan".
With respect to earlier developed accident prediction methods, the Peabody Dimmick Formula, the New Hampshire Index and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Hazard Index, all lack descriptive capabilities due to their limited number of explanatory variables.
Careful laboratory examination of the processes, as well as a thorough survey of the accidents that have occurred in the past, led to the development of several reactivity accident prevention methods that can be employed to eliminate hazards associated with phenol-formaldehyde resin manufacture.
The present study is part of an initiative started at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission to evaluate various accident investigation methods in order to help SEVESO sites and competent authorities in the selection of analytical approaches and extraction of the lessons learned.
