Safety Publications
Close Calls
| Multer, J., Ranney, J., Hile, J. & Raslear, T. Developing an effective corrective action process: Lessons learned from operating a confidential close call reporting system. In Rail Human Factors: Supporting reliability, safety and cost reduction. Eds. Nastaran Dadashi, Anita Scott; John R Wilson; Ann Mills. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 659-669. 2013 |
| Multer, Jordan. Moving toward a Just Culture in the U.S. Railroad Industry through Development of a Confidential Reporting System. 18th International Railway Safety Conference, Denver, Colorado. October 2008 |
| New Vectors LLC, Confidential Close Call Reporting in the Railroad Industry: A Literature Review to Inform Evaluation. April 2006 |
| Ranney, J., Hile, J., Zuschlag, M., Morell, J., Coplen, M., Multer, J., & Raslear, T. Evaluations of Demonstration Pilots Produce Change. TR News, May-June 2013, pp. 28-36. |
| Transportation Research Board, Improving Safety-related Rules Compliance in the Public Transportation Industry, TCRP Report 149. 2011 |
| U.S. DOT Federal Railroad Administration, Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS) Peer Review Team Human Performance Handbook. January 2009 |
| U.S. Department of Transportation, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, C3RS Executive Briefing — Confidential Close Calls Reporting System Demonstration Program. November 2006 |
| U.S. DOT Federal Railroad Administration, Invitation to join C3RS Demonstration Project. July 2005 |
| U.S. DOT Federal Railroad Administration, Improving Railroad Safety Through Understanding Close Calls. 2003 |
Rail Systems
| Allen, Sareh, et al., Current Trends and Future Challenges in the Freight Railroad Industry, pages 40-43, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University. May 2008 |
| Amtrak, Environmental Health and Safety Report. 2011 |
| Nieminen, Levi, Carmen Bianco, and Dan Denison, Transforming the Safety Culture at New York City Transit, Dennison Consulting. 2016 |
| Sherry, Patrick and Karen Philbrick, Voluntary Reporting of Safety Information: The Feasibility of Developing Such Programs in the U.S. Railroad Industry and a Proposed Demonstration Demonstration Project. Intermodal Transportation Industry, University of Denver. May 2003 |
| Wright, Linda and Tjerk Van Der Schaaf, Accident Versus Near-Miss Causation: a Critical Review of the Literature, an Empirical Test in the UK Railway Domain, and their Implications for other Sectors. 2003 |
Human Factors
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U.S. DOT Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Railroad Safety, Collaborative Incident Analysis and Human Performance Handbook. May 2014 |
Other Safety Reporting Systems
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Corcoran, William and Linda Connell, Accident Precursor Analysis and Management: Reducing Technological Risk Through Diligence, National Academies Press. 2004 |
| Dekker, Sidney and Tom Laursen, From Punitive Action to Confidential Reporting: A Longitudinal Study of Organizational Learning from Incidents, Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare. September/October 2007: 50–56 |
| Johnson, Chris, Failure in Safety-Critical Systems: A Handbook of Accident and Incident Reporting, University of Glasgow Press. 2003 |
| Mills, Russell W. Incident Reporting Systems: Lessons from the Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Organization. IBM Center for the Business of Government, 2013. |
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