Workshop Proceedings

Proceedings from the FRA-sponsored human factors workshop: Improving Railroad Safety Through Understanding Close Calls

Volume 1 — Summarizes speaker presentations on lessons learned from existing close call systems, attendee feedback on "close call" experiences, and benefits and barriers to implementing a close call management system.

Volume 2 — Appendices: FRA workshop invitation, workshop agenda, speaker presentations, breakout groUP discussions, workshop attendees, references, speaker biographies, and a case study.

Speaker Presentations

BNSF Hotline Process — John Grundman

Confidential Reporting: the UK Rail Experience — Aidan Nelson

Flight Operations Quality Assurance and Aviation Safety Action Programs — Don McLure

Global Aviation Information Network (FAA) — Christopher Hart

Impact of Confidential Incident Reporting and Analysis System (CIRAS) for the U.K. Rail Industry — Helen Muir

Impact of CIRAS (handout) HTML version
Impact of CIRAS (handout) PDF version

Impact of CIRAS (presentation)

United Airlines Safety Culture — Hank Krakowski