Identifying risks in transport: Safety issues from ATSB occurrence investigations, July 2009 to June 2012
This report documents the ATSB identified safety issues and related safety actions and recommendations for the 2011–12 financial year and trends across 3 financial years. It will explore the risk levels assigned and provide an understanding of where the greatest risks to each transport sector appears to lie, based on investigation findings. The results will be useful for government decision makers, regulators and the aviation, rail and marine industries to understand if and where attention to risk needs to be applied.
In all transport sectors, the most commonly identified safety factors that contributed to the accident or incident were the actions of individuals. In aviation, aircraft operation actions usually contributed to accidents and incidents –in marine, navigation and deck operation actions, and in rail operations, maintenance and vehicle operation actions most commonly contributed. Effects of local conditions (such as weather, training and skill level, workload, stress or fatigue) were common contributors to accidents and incidents.
Research report: www.atsb.gov.au/publications/2012/xr-2012-001.aspx
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