Choose a significant accident. For example…
Challenger Shuttle Explosion
Cherno
Choose a significant accident. For example…
Challenger Shuttle Explosion
Chernobyl
Boeing 737-Max
Buncefield Oil Terminal
Air France Flight 447
BP Deepwater Horizon
Costa Concordia
Tesla Autonomous vehicle crash 7th May 2016
OR a less well known event (e.g. from https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/rail-accident-investigation-branch Links to an external site.)
Read up, watch and analyse that accident
Complete a structured essay. There are set sections you need to complete. These are…
Title (0 marks)
Give the title of your accident
Part 1 (20 marks; maximum 400 words)
Give an overview of the accident, including the technical or engineering failures that might be relevant. Part 2 (40 marks in total for part 2; maximum 800 words in total for part 2)
Describe the wider systems issues that contributed to the accident. These include
2.1 Physical/actor events, decision, process and conditions leading to event 2.2 Supervision and organisational factors leading to event
2.3 External (governments, societal, policy, commercial pressure) factors leading to event
Part 3 (40 marks; maximum 800 words)
Design, training, process and culture solutions. Ways that the accident could have been averted, or changes that have been introduced since to manage wider systems issues that led or contributed to the accident.
For your answers, feel free to include links to other material, or images / figures / tables (Canvas will include these in your word count).
Please also add references at the end. APA or Harvard is good for referencing.
Please put a word count after each section. You may include images and figures. • Good answers
Have a clear description of the accident
Think about human and organizational causes or factors during but also before the accident
Refer back to some of the principles of Ergonomics and Human Factors, and Methods and User-Centred Design
Think of engineering and human solutions
• Not so good answers
Have a very short description of the accident, or also use part 2 describes the accident
Only limited thinking about people and what might have led to the accident
Do not refer to Human Centered Design
Just describe technical solutions