Accident Analysis

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).