Windscale 1957 accident: Polonium not a hazard?

The Windscale reactor accident--50 years on.

District surveys following the Windscale incident, October 1957. 1958.

During 10-11 October 1957 a fire in the core of a nuclear reactor at Windscale Works, Sellafield (in the current county of Cumbria, England) led to a significant release of radioactive material to atmosphere. The accident at Windscale No. 1 Pile required a large-scale environmental monitoring programme to be conducted and the results of this survey led to a restriction on the distribution of mi...

A double diamond anniversary-Kyshtym and Windscale: the nuclear accidents of 1957.

Road humps: accident prevention or hazard?

Two cases of injury to passengers seated on public transport buses occurred after the vehicles had traversed road humps. While the potential dangers to seated bus passengers have been acknowledged in the Department of Transport literature, specific mention in medical reports is lacking. Should the United Kingdom follow the example set by the United States, where the placement of road humps on b...

Accident Analysis and Hazard Analysis for Human and Organizational Factors

Pressures and incentives to operate complex socio-technical aerospace systems in a high-risk state are ever present. Without consideration of the role humans and organizations play in system safety during the development of these systems, accidents will occur. Safe design of the ―socio‖ parts of the sociotechnical system is challenging. Even if the system, including the human and organizational...