Reviewing prior incidents involving mobile equipment is a valuable way of understanding what could potentially happen on your site.  Your own site incident data, hazard reports and safety alerts published by regulators are useful resources that help to identify potential exposures.

​Incident Explorer helps to extract relevant information from sometimes unclear or incomplete description by focusing on on attributes such as speed, hazard, threat and scenario using our well-developed incident classification framework with years of extensive testing.

Conventional approaches to risk assessment typically result in a list of controls that are common to multiple exposures, which can lead to over-reliance on these controls being effective. 

By using Incident Explorer, each incident record can be further analyzed to identify the specific control level where an individual control failed.

For example, an individual control may work at Level 1 with a clearly written and explicit procedure around fatigue measures, and at Level 6 with adequate supervising and monitoring, however, the execution of fatigue measures may have failed at Level 5 (CF5.3).

Incident Explorer associates each control failure with a specific control aspect (e.g. CA5.3 fatigue measures - employee self-reporting, shift measures and checks). These control aspects will form part of the control set for all other incidents with the same interaction type involving fatigue.

Just as each site is unique with its operations, equipment, experience and skill set of the people at site, so too are the control sets placed around the different scenarios and interaction types provided by the incident data.

Incident Explorer offers various methods for visualizing incident data, such as heatmaps and several pre-defined analysis outputs. Each output can be easily exported to a MS Word .docx file for integration into your own site reports.

Incident Explorer automatically extracts the equipment with the highest accumulated exposure from the incident data for each interaction type - equipment to person, equipment to equipment, equipment to environment and loss of control. 

Additional controls can then be considered for items of equipment with either high risk ratings or high overall exposure (based on the current site controls) to develop the collision management system strategy.