Desirable Directions of Accident Investigation

Accident Investigation - Missed Opportunities

INTRODUCTION The chemical industry is a much safer place to work than many industries with fewer inherent hazards. Nevertheless, almost all the accidents that have occurred need not have occurred. Most of them have happened before and have been described in published reports. Someone knew how to prevent them even if the people on the job at the time did not. There is something seriously wrong w...

Desirable Difficulty in Learning: A Computational Investigation

Certain difficulties of a word learning situation can promote long-term learning, and thus are referred to as “desirable difficulties”. We use a computational modelling approach to examine the possible explanatory factors of the observed patterns in a cross-situational word learning experiment. Our results suggest that the within-trial ambiguity and the presentation duration of each trial in ad...

Investigation of Qom Rural Area Water Network Accident in 2010 and Minimization Approaches of Accident Frequencies

Background & Aims of the Study: Accidents in water networks can lead to increase the uncounted water, costs of repair, maintenance, restoration and enter water contaminants to water network. The aim of this study is to survey the accidents of Qom rural water network and choose the right approaches to reduce the number of accidents. Materials & Methods:  In this cross...

FORENSIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION: Motor Vehicles

Although more appropriately placed in a chapter dealing with basic principals, an extensive discussion of error analysis is included in Chapter 4. This discussion includes the introduction of the Monte Carlo method of analysis, which has recently been appearing in accident reconstruction reports and articles. Given the adversarial context in which the subjects presented in this book will be use...

Aircraft accident investigation: the pathologist's role.