Safety Academy

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Cartoon : Human and organisational factors

When an accident happens... very often – too often – it is said to be due to human error! It is time to change our views on human error and consider it not as a root cause, but as a consequence of other problems. These problems can only be identified ...
The essentials of safety culture

Did you know that there are more than 50 definitions of safety culture? In this new, fully-illustrated publication, Icsi shares its standpoint on the concept of ‘safety culture’ . The Essentials of Safety Culture is the result of an extensive study of cu ...
Human and organizational factors of safety: state of the art

To control industrial risks, companies have developed measures based on the reliability of their installations and their management systems (e.g. procedures). Progress has certainly been made, but safety results seem now to have reached a plateau and are ...
BP Texas – on the 10th anniversary of the disaster: a review of the recommendations

The 2005 BP Texas disaster was one of the worst oil refinery accidents the CSB was asked to investigate. This four-minute video, made ten years later, in 2015, presents a brief review of the key messages, and provides useful feedback for the industry as ...