Events and Conditional Factors Analysis (2008)

The ECFA+ manual is available for download in English or Dutch. The authors have developed this manual to: 

1. help investigators produce accounts of incidents that are robust with regard to evidence and completeness;
2. encourage stakeholders to share information about incidents;
3. provide a reference point for practitioners, tool developers, researchers and students.

This manual is intended for line managers and supervisors as well as specialists. It describes a method that is based on ECFA - Events and Causal Factors Analysis (Buys and Clark, 1995) and includes many refinements of approach. In order to distinguish this method from its predecessor, it is called ECFA+, Events and Conditional Factors Analysis. The paper "Investigation tools in context" describes where ECFA+ fits in to the "investigator's toolbox".

ECFA+ uses sticky notes; the artwork for these can be downloaded as a zip file.

A 'stencil' for Microsoft Visio is available.

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Last modified: Monday, 12 July 2010