Road Driving for a Safer Railway—Effective RTC Investigations

Only when we investigate can we understand. Incidents while driving for work can have fatal or life-changing results, so we need to investigate to find ways to stop incidents repeating. Here’s what’s needed for an effective investigation.

01:58 About Gill Milner, RTC investigator

02:55 Gill offers a definition of an RTC

03:40 Why start your investigation in the Golden Hour

04:45 The five stages of the investigation

05:37 How to debrief a driver

07:35 How the driver may have added to the causes

09:18 How the job design may have added to the causes

11:20 How the organisation may have added to the causes

12:12 Build a timeline for the incident

14:04 What to do when a serious incident happens

16:34 Investigation complete, what are the safety learnings?

You may be interested in:

Transport Research Laboratory publication: MIS058 Study on good practices for reducing road safety risks caused by road user distractions https://www.trl.co.uk/publications/mis058-study-on-good-practices-for-reducing-road-safety-risks-caused-by-road-user-distractions 

TRL publication: Smartphone use while driving: a simulator study https://www.trl.co.uk/publications/ppr592 

TRL publication: Investigating driver distraction: the effects of video and static advertising https://www.trl.co.uk/publications/ppr409 

TRL publication: Drivers attitudes to distraction and other motorists’ behaviour A focus group and observational study https://www.trl.co.uk/publications/ppr435 

TRL publication: The relationship between driver fatigue and rules limiting hours of driving and work https://www.trl.co.uk/publications/ppr413-a 

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