Emerging Approaches in Safety Analysis; Canberra, 25-26 October 2005
This event was held last october, Click here for the presentations from the seminar in PDF format
The pre-event details are below
AAvPA is proud to present a seminar on new approaches to analysing safety-related information. Selected experts and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds will present their work on how to make sense of complex sets of data so as to enhance safety. The seminar will involve a series of presentations, outlining new approaches for analysing a specific accident or incident. The seminar will also include presentations on approaches for analysing the safety health of a system by reviewing multiple information sources.
The seminar has been designed for practitioners and researchers in aviation safety. Nonetheless, the content will be relevant to practitioners and researchers from other high reliability industries.
Keynote presentation
Peter Ladkin Ph.D. is a Professor of Computer Networks and Distributed Systems in the Faculty of Technology at the University of Bielefeld. He is also founder and a director of Causalis Limited, as well as founding President of the German Chapter of the System Safety Society.
Peter Ladkin and Causalis Limited specialise in the analysis of safety-related and safetycritical complex heterogeneous systems and their behaviour, including the analysis of accidents. He developed Why-Because Analysis (WBA) for the causal analysis of accidents and incidents in 1996-8 with the assistance of students. WBA has been adopted as a company standard by Siemens Transportation Systems Rail Automation Division, the world market-leader in railway signalling systems, as well as by Siemens Transportation Systems Mass Transit, a leading supplier of trams and tramway systems. Further information on Peter and his work can be found at: www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de Peter will be delivering a half-day presentation at the AAvPA Seminar, titled Rational Cognitive Models and the 2002 Ueberlingen Mid-Air Collision.
Other presentations
- Professor Andrew Hopkins (Australian National University), The Longford Gas Plant Explosion and Accimap Analysis.
- Dr Mike Walker (Australian Transport Safety Bureau), ATSB Guidelines on Investigation Analysis.
- Dmitri Zotov (Civil Aviation Safety Authority), Use of the Theory of Constraints in Investigation Analysis.
- Bob Dodd (Qantas Safety), New Approaches to Analysing Operational Safety Information for a Large Airline.
- Dr Christine Boag-Hodgson (Airservices Australia), Measuring, Analysing and Predicting Safety at Airservices Australia.
- David Harris & Dr Matthew Thomas (University of South Australia), Flight-Crew Performance Modelling: A Systems Approach to Analysis and Investigation.
Each of these presentations will be 60-90 mins in duration. The final session on the second day (26 October) will be a panel discussion involving all speakers and questions from participants.
Additional information
- Location: Pilgrim House, 69 Northbourne Avenue, Canberra
- Dates and Times: Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th October, 0900-1700.
- Cost: $200 (members), $250 (non-members)
- Costs include morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea on both days.
- A social function for the Tuesday night (25 October) is being organised. This will involve an additional cost for those interested.
- Attendees should note that the Safeskies 2005 Conference, with the theme ‘Past Lessons, Future Safety’ is also being hosted in Canberra directly following the AAvPA Seminar on 27-28 October 2005. Further details on Safeskies are available at http://www.safeskiesaustralia.org/
Even more information
Further information on this AAvPA Seminar, including a final program and registration information, will be advised shortly and included on the AAvPA web-site
Click here to download the flyer (includes application form) (PDF)
For any inquiries in the meantime, please contact one of the following:
- Melanie Todd, CASA, (02) 6217 1698 (melanie.todd@aavpa.org)
- Mike Walker, ATSB, (02) 6274 6469 (mike.walker@aavpa.org)
