Road Accidents, Prevent or Punish?

[cazzo]

Some of you may be familiar with the book 'Road Accidents, Prevent or Punish?' by J.J. Leeming, for those that aren't, Leeming was a Surveyor/Engineer in Traffic & roads etc. and his book explores the way RTA's are 'Investigated' or rather not investigated with the authorities merely looking to blame someone for everything.

He argues that as long as the primary action is blame then accidents will never be reduced.

The book is now out of print and although it was published in 1969 it makes many valid points which 30+ years on are still relevant, a worthwile read I think.

For anyone that is interested it can be downloaded in .pdf from;

Link removed as per request.

[Pigeon]

Thanks to the Health & Safety Executive the investigation of rail accidents has changed from problem-solving to dishing out blame, and has become almost entirely useless as a result. I'm downloading the book now...

[Wacky Racer]

Pigeon said:

Thanks to the Health & Safety Executive the investigation of rail accidents has changed from problem-solving to dishing out blame, and has become almost entirely useless as a result. I'm downloading the book now...

Hi Pigeon, see you arrived safely..

Welcome to the madhouse

Wacky (aka Madwoollyfan)

[Bluebottle]

Leeming's right, of course. But, whenever anything goes wrong the public want somebody punished. My experience is that, in big corporations, it is never one person's fault.

There is no hope of good sense breaking out.

[Size Nine Elm]

Please note

The link is to a site I've set up at work. My personal web site doesn't have the space or traffic to host it.

The work site is going ot be used for some serious stuff next week, so the link will have to be removed. If anyone else has sufficient hosting space/bandwidth (total docs are 160MB) please capture whats there and rehost, or email me through my profile.

[Pigeon]

Wacky Racer said:

Hi Pigeon, see you arrived safely.. Welcome to the madhouse Wacky (aka Madwoollyfan)

Tee hee! Greetings...