Welcome to the 9th article in the series. Article 8 overviewed the selection of critical controls, hopefully generating some thoughts about setting company or site objectives for moving to CCM, as well as considering the concept of ‘indicativeness’ as a potential critical control requirement. Critical control? This article will continue with the critical control selection [...]

Guest blog by Prof. Coen van Gulijk from University of Huddersfield How to extract in-depth learning from 200,000 reports per year? Big data text analysis for BowTies. Dealing with vast numbers of text-based safety records One of the challenges for safety managers is dealing with vast amounts of data. Especially when it comes to near-miss reporting [...]

Guest blog by Prof. Luca Fiorentini and Prof. Luca Marmo A good investigator collects evidence, analyzes them, finds the root causes and the relations among these causes that lead to the accident and provides suggestions about corrective actions to avoid the reoccurrence of the undesired event. In this blog, Prof. Luca Fiorentini and Prof. Luca [...]

Guest blog by Coen van Gulijk, professor of railway safety and risk at the University of Huddersfield. Bowties are an effective visual representation of the risk space that you want to control. Bowties connect hazards, threats, consequences and most importantly controls in a clear interface. With the new BowTieServer, several functions can be added to bowties [...]