Chapter 3: Incident Investigation

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Purpose of Investigation

• Overview of Investigation Process

• Types of Evidence

• Event Causation Technique

  • Work context

  • Incident sequence

  • Direct causes

  • Control failures

  • Underlying factors

  • Implementing the Event Causation Technique (ECT)

  • Concrete hopper accident

    • Describe the work context

    • Create timeline

    • Describe incident sequence

    • Conduct why-analysis

    • Summarise using ECT diagram

• Summary

• Review Questions

• References

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