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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"accident investigation"”.
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Computerized Aircraft Accident Investigation: Federal Aviation Administration Aviation Safety Inspectors' Perceptions
… the use of a personal computer in the aircraft accident investigation process. A descriptive study survey questionnaire was used to collect the data for the study, which was sent to 150 FAA ASIs. The data collected supported the hypothesis that aircraft accident investigators think the use of a …
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Role of Police, Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys in Traffic Accident Investigation and Adjudication in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
… private attorneys who were involved in traffic accident investigation and criminal court adjudication in Chattanooga, Tennessee. These data were compiled to develop a profile of the actors and their involvement in the process of a criminal charge stemming from a traffic accident. The literature …
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A study of the nature and extent of the traffic accident investigation responsibilities of county law enforcement agencies in the United States
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. College of Social Science, 1966
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A survey of problems and conditions within the organizational context of law enforcement agencies perceived to block or impede the use of accident investigation training
… personnel who graduated from a two-week accident investigation training program. Questions elicited ratings on 29 problem/conditions hypothesized within the literature as influential to organizational work behavior. A Likert type scale was used to rate the perceived influence of each …
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Human Reliability assessment in oil tanker operations
… of historical data of oil tanker incidents/accidents from 1970 to 2008, provides a judicious reason to conduct this research. The critical review of Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) and HRA results in the development of a conceptual framework of HRA facilitating FSA and incorporating Human …
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A STAMP model of the Überlingen aircraft collision accident
STAMP is a method for evaluating accidents that is based on systems theory. It departs from traditional event chain models that tend to focus on human errors instead of the goals and motives that triggered the errors. The thesis presents a STAMP model of the mid-air collision that occurred on July …
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Human Error in Commercial Fishing Vessel Accidents: An Investigation Using the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System
… with each other. The analysis of fishing vessel accidents can be complicated due to the diverse nature of the industry, including the species caught, the type and size of boat that is employed, how far travelled from their homeport, and the adequacy of the support organizations ensuring safe and …
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Damage stability of ships as a safety criterion for optimisation tools
… of damage. To fulfil this need both the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) damage data base and a damage data base generated by Lutzen (2002) are interrogated and findings are reported.<br/><br/>The hydrodynamic analysis of the optimised hull and basis hull for the intact and damage …
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Impact assessment of corporate governance on corruption in the ministry of works and transport Namibia
… service, transportation, works, and aircraft accident investigation). The qualitative technique was utilized by the researcher, who used non structured questions to elicit the thoughts of the respondents. The study established that corporate governance has a positive effect on service delivery …
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Vehicular accident occurrence analysis and prediction
Vehicular accidents within Tennessee increased by 25% within 2009-2019 according to Tennessee’s Integrated Traffic Analysis Network. Accidents rank in the top three causes of accidental death across all ages in the U.S, and in 2017 accounted for 11.9% of all deaths by injury, the National Vital …
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Nurturing Systems Thinking: Developing a Framework Based on the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) to Improve Systems Development Processes
… has improved the effectiveness of the aviation accident investigation by helping investigators perform a thorough analysis of the system factors that may have contributed to the accident. HFACS helps aviation organizations improve their quality assessment and monitoring by making explicit the …
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Fixing the national security state: commissions and the politics of disaster and reform
… the relationship between disaster, public investigation, and reform by undertaking a detailed study of the Space Shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation Board and Iraq Study Group. Together, the cases constitute a study of the national security state seeking to correct failures across …
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System theoretic safety analysis of the Sewol-Ho ferry accident in South Korea
… 172 of a total 476 people triggered thorough accident investigations. As the results of the investigations performed by the Korea Maritime Safety Tribunal and the Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea, 399 people were blamed for the accident and arrested, 154 of them were put in jail, many …
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Systems-theoretic safety analyses extended for coordination
… gap by extending STAMP (Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes)-based analysis methods STPA (System-Theoretic Process Analysis) and CAST (Causal Analysis based on STAMP). This thesis contributes to knowledge by introducing: 1) a coordination framework for use in analysis, 2) …
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The accuracy of energy-based crash reconstruction techniques using event data recorder measurements
<p>In the field of accident investigation, a vehicle's delta-V is commonly used to quantify the severity of a collision. Delta-V is defined as the impulsive change in vehicle velocity caused by a collision. Often, the method used to obtain delta-Vs in real-world collisions is estimation based on …
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Understanding government and railroad strategy for crude oil transportation in North America
… safety is of particular concern, CAST, an accident investigation tool built on the STAMP accident causation model, is used to study the safety control structure of the Canadian railway industry that existed prior to the Lac-Megantic accident. This research describes how environmental …
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Safety Return on Investment (ROI): The Broader Adoption of Rotorcraft CFIT-Avoidance Technology
… the costs associated with the outcomes of CFIT-accidents, the costs of adopting the technology, the current accident rate, the benefits expressed as costs avoided through a reduction in the number of accidents, and application of the appropriate ROI formula.</p> <p>The dissertation was conducted …
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Alternative Foam Treatments For The Space Shuttle's External Tank
The Space Shuttle Columbia accident and the recent excitement surrounding Discovery's return to space brought excessive media attention to the foam products used on the External Tank (ET). In both cases, videos showed chunks of foam or ablative material falling away from the ET during lift off. …
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