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NRI project work has two aims: to further our goals and to create revenue for the Foundation, both
elements need to be present for a specific project to run. Where a project involves the
development of a method or new knowledge, we place this into the public
domain. We are always interested to hear from
people interested in partnership.
Workshop: Learning From Operational
Experience (June 2008)
The workshop is organised by the NRI Foundation in partnership with the UK's
West Midlands Fire Service. The workshop
is designed as a forum for dicussion between the researchers who produced a study into organisational learning in the Dutch Fire Service
and members of the Fire Services of the United Kingdom and The Netherlands. The study
in question was commissioned by
the Dutch inspectorate of public order safety (IOOV).
The original IOOV
report (in Dutch) can be downloaded from the IOOV website. The workshop is
open to members of the Fire Services; if you would like more information, please
contact us.
NRI is working in partnership with the Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke
Marine) to translate the MORT question set from English into Dutch.
As the project combines the Navy's safety, health and environmental protection
expertise with that of NRI's MORT knowledge, the opportunity has been taken to
review in detail the current English question set.
The results of this work will be a second edition of the MORT User's Manual
and Chart available in Dutch and English. These will be published on the NRI
website before the end of 2008.
Revision of 3CA
(2007-8)
3CA is a method of root
cause analysis, designed to assist the investigation of accidents of any
type. Development of 3CA began in 2000 as the result of a chemical industry
project run in Humberside in the UK. The project, funded by the UK
Health
and Safety Executive and Humber Chemical Focus was part of an initiative to
improve learning form accidents. The original 3CA manual was published in December 2002 with the
sponsorship of
Humber Chemical Focus. NRI, working in partnership with
the UK Health and Safety Executive, has produced a new form of 3CA manual, the
B-Form. The manual for both forms of 3CA are available for
download.
Defining Operational Readiness
to Investigate (2005/6)
The aim of project "Defining Operational Readiness to
Investigate" is to describe the preconditions for efficient investigation of
accidents and incidents. The main output will be a free document, published as
a focus for debate and comment; a White Paper is available for review. The project
is led by
John
Kingston
(NRI) and Roger
Bibbings
for RoSPA. The leaders
of the project are keen to hear from any reader with suggestions about the
project, particularly those with experience in managing the investigative
resource of organisations.
Regulatory Assessment of Safety Management
Systems (2004/5)
Working in partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour
(Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid), NRI has produced an
analysis of the requirements for tools to assist the regulatory assessment of
industrial safety management. The report of this analysis is available for
download.
- Events and Conditional Factors
Analysis (2004/5)
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NRI has produced a revised version of ECFA, this will incorporate rules to improve the rigour
and usability of the method. This project was internally funded. The manual
has been finalised and is available for
download; a Dutch translation will be available
at the end of 2007 (produced in partnership with Delft TopTech b.v.).
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- MORT New generation (2002
onwards)
In 2002, we published a revised
MORT User's Manual and MORT
chart. We were keen to renew the public domain
MORT materials that were last revised a decade ago. The new
materials feature:
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improved guidance on the investigative application of MORT
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a 'refreshed' question set, phrased in British English
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a simplified system for transfers in the MORT chart
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advice to would-be users about tailoring the question set to their
own organisations
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preservation of the structure and essence of the original MORT
development work
The Foundation
aims to produce a Dutch translation of the MORT Manual and Chart by 2008.
Our next MORT project aims to
produce a new generation of the tool and to build a community of interest to
support the ideas within it. We are aiming to commence this project later this
year. If you are interested in becoming a partner in this project, please
contact us.
Assistance to Investigations
(2000)
NRI provides specialised assistance
to investigations. A notable example is the technical advice we provided to
the management of the investigation into the 13 May 2000 explosion at Enschede in the Netherlands. The scale of the investigation required 15
teams to be assembled from seven different agencies. As part of our
contribution, we adapted Events & Causal Factors Analysis to allow several of
the teams to integrate their reconstructions. The summary final report
concerning the explosion and disaster management at Enschede is available in
English (PDF
653k). Also available is a
collection of pages in Dutch. NRI also provided assistance to the investigation into the fire in Volendam
on 31st December 2000.
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