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A comparison of three systemic accident analysis methods using 46 SPAD (Signals Passed at Danger) incidents
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posted on 2017-04-06, 13:37 authored by Kate Dixon, Patrick WatersonPatrick Waterson, Jo BarnesJo BarnesDuring the period 1996-2003 there were five fatal accidents on the UK railway network, three of which were Signals Passed at Danger (SPAD) events (Watford Junction, 1996; Southall, 1997; Ladbroke Grove, 1999). SPAD events vary in severity and whilst most are not fatal there is the potential to cause serious injuries to passengers and train staff and damage to railway infra-structure. This paper investigates how the current system accident analysis tool used within the railway, the Incident Factor Classification System (IFCS) identifies and analyses causal factors of SPAD events. To evaluate the effectiveness IFCS was used to analysis SPAD incident reports (n=46) and the outputs were compared with two systemic accident analysis methods and relevant outputs (the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System – HFACS and Acci-Maps). The initial reporting process proved to hinder all systemic accident analysis methods in the extraction of causal factors. However, once extracted, all system accident analysis methods were successful in categorizing causal factors and demonstrated various outputs to illustrate the findings.
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8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and ErgonomicsCitation
DIXON, K., WATERSON, P. and BARNES, J., 2017. A comparison of three systemic accident analysis methods using 46 SPAD (Signals Passed at Danger) incidents. In: Stanton N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2017, Springer, Cham, pp. 1097-1108.Publisher
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-03-10Publication date
2017Notes
This paper was presented at the 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE), Los Angeles, 17-21th July. This is a pre-copyedited version of a contribution published in Stanton N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2017 published by Springer. The definitive authenticated version is available online via https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60441-1_103ISBN
9783319632926ISSN
2194-5357Publisher version
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Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol 597Language
- en