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Learning from failures

Alastair Soane promotes the understanding and importance of learning from failures and the need to keep learning.

Alastair Soane's talk covers:

  • An introduction of the work done by the Standing Committee of Structural Safety (SCOSS) and the Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety (CROSS)
  • Examples of failures and near misses, and how these are handled
  • A brief overview of Grenfell and matters beyond that, namely the Hackitt Report and the Hansford Report
  • What engineers can do to make the process safer for the public and themselves

This video is from our 2018 Risk Management Conference.

Speaker
Alastair Soane is Director of CROSS.

Additional information

Format:
Video
Video Length:
00:47:24
Publisher:
IStructE

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Training Safety Video

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