Safety Management Lesson From Nicoll Highway Collapse

New
Course
Safety Management Lesson
From
Nicoll Highway Collapse
IES Academy
1st Run
19 November 2014, Wednesday
By Dr Goh Yang Miang
Course Outline
This course aims to introduce valuable safety management lessons derived from major accident
inquiries in Singapore. This is an important part of Singapore’s engineering history and, it is
necessary to capture the lessons in the form of case studies so that they can be shared with current
and future managers, engineers, supervisors, technicians and workers. The recently published book
by Goh and Soon (2014) describes three major accidents in Singapore and their safety management
lessons. This seminar will introduce some of the chapters from the book and extends the discussion
further. The discussion will focus on incident analysis techniques, the Nicoll Highway collapse case
study and discussion on topics such as design, organisational structure, culture, and major hazards
monitoring.
The aim of the discussion is not on the legal and liabilities aspects of the major accident. Instead the
focus is on learning from past the accident (based on the details in the Committee of Inquiry report)
so as to improve safety management and prevent future major accidents.
Course objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Have an appreciation of the Event Causation Technique
• Understand the circumstances of the Nicoll Highway accident
• Understand the warning signs of a deteriorating hazard monitoring system
• Understand the importance of systems thinking concepts in accident prevention
• Appreciate the need to adopt a risk management approach when dealing with design changes
• Understand how structure, processes and culture can mould the behaviour and decisions of
individuals
For Whom
Professional Engineers, Safety professionals, Developer & Senior Management from Building
and Construction Contractors, Resident Engineers and Resident Technical Officers that aspire
to improve and enhance their Safety Management practices.
Profile of speaker
Dr Goh is an Assistant Professor with the National University of Singapore. He currently leads the
Safety and Resilience Research Unit (SaRRU) in the Centre for Project Management and
Construction Law. At the same time, he is the Deputy Programme Director for the Bachelor of
Project and Facilities Management in the Department of Building, NUS. Dr Goh specialises in
Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) and risk management. He is appointed as an Honorary
Researcher of the Workplace Safety and Health Institute in Singapore (2014-2017). He worked as a
senior consultant in the oil and gas industry, Assistant Director (Investigations) at the Singapore
Ministry of Manpower, and Senior Lecturer at Curtin University in Western Australia. Dr Goh is
currently an Adjunct Associate Professor with Curtin University and an approved Workplace Safety
and Health Auditor.the various professional organizations such as Singapore Structural Steel Society
(SSSS), Singapore Quality Institute (SQI), Singapore Welding Society (SWS), Institution of
Engineers, Singapore (IES) and BCA Academy.
Registration Form
Safety Management Lesson From Nicoll Highway Collapse 1st Run
Date
:
19 November 2014, Wednesday
Time
:
7pm to 10pm
Venue
:
NTU@one-north Campus, 11 Slim Barracks Rise (off North Buona Vista Road)
Singapore 138664
CPD Programme
Fees *
:
3 SDUs - Confirmed / 3 STUs(Safety) - Confirmed / 3 PDUs - To Be Confirmed
:
$115.00 (IES Members)
$135.00 (Non-Members)
(Please note REs/RTOs are registrars of IES but NOT members of IES)
Please register online/mail/fax the completed form by 10 November 2014 Before 3pm to:
Karen Phua
70 Bukit Tinggi Road, Singapore 289758.
(Tel) 6463 9211
(Fax) 6463 9468
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