Learning From Accidents
Welcome to "Learning From Accidents".
Purpose of this website is twofold:
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to introduce web-based SafetyPort
software to help you to learn from accidents and incidents to assist safety
improvement in your organization.
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to serve a starting place for those looking for information related to accidents, incidents and other
unwanted or "unplanned" events.
N.B. Most of the time, when referring to "accidents", I mean all unwanted events and
their actual or potential direct or indirect consequences
to include:
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Accidents - injuries, material damage, environmental damage
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Incidents,
near-misses or close-calls
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Quality problems
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Any events that you may consider "unwanted", "undesired" of "unplanned"
This website provides suggestions on how to set up a system to allow learning from accidents / incidents (and other undesired
events).
If you want to learn from events (accidents/incidents), you need at least:
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have events reported
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have sufficient information about the event(s) that you wish to learn from
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know the causes that have led to those event(s) so you can take actions to prevent recurrence
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you need to know what to do to allow learning from unwanted events, on an individual level and - more
important - on an organizational level.
RMS-Incident can be very helpful to improve the safety performance of your
organization allowing you to:
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obtain, register and store relevant factual information
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carry out cause analysis including root causes
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prepare individual reports to management or other parties
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retrieve information from database to identify common
causes and establish trends
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prepare monthly and annual reports to management
RMS-Incident is a web-based accident and incident investigation
software program that can help you to:
RMS-Incident is based on the Frank Bird causation or "domino model".
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