Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning from Incidents (IP-LFI)

Lead Research Organisation: Glasgow Caledonian University
Department Name: Caledonian Academy

Abstract

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning from Incidents (LFI) is a seminar series advancing research that informs policy and practice in health and safety. Effective learning from incidents is critical for people working in hazardous environments, to ensure they are safe at work and to protect the environment from catastrophic accidents. This research is interested in improving our understanding of the theories, methods, practices and policies related to learning from incidents. The seminar series is the first of its kind in the world. Learning from incidents is important across a range of industries and is relevant for professional and government bodies and third-sector organisations concerned about Health and Safety. The series brings together practitioners and policymakers with researchers from a range of academic disciplines to provide new theories, methodologies and organisational change methods that can be applied by organisations to improve health and safety across a range of industries. Running for two years, the seminar series comprises six interdisciplinary seminars, including presentations from researchers, practitioners and policy makers from a range of industry, health and commercial contexts, allowing sufficient time for debate and discussion and stimulating co-production of knowledge. Participants are established scholars and early-career researchers from the UK, Finland, Italy, and Spain who have expertise in Adult and Organisational Learning; Sociology (Sociology of Risk and of Work); Industrial Psychology; Human Factors Engineering; and Ethnomethodology. Series' participants include practitioners from a range of industries (BP, Phillips66, Land Securities, Sir Robert McAlpine, FirstGroup plc, McNicholas Construction, Barhale, Balcas Timber, E.ON) and professional and government bodies as well as third-sector organisations (Energy Institute, British Safety Council, Health and Safety Executive for GB). Outputs from the seminar series include an interdisciplinary research agenda in learning from incidents and an edited volume, synthesising scientific contributions from research and relevant case studies from industry.

Planned Impact

Who will benefit from this research?

While LFI has its roots in highly hazardous work contexts (i.e. the energy sector), it has wide application across a broader range of private and public sectors (for example manufacturing, construction, healthcare, finance). The principal beneficiaries of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning from Incidents are employees, frontline and senior managers and trade union representatives, in organisations across these sectors. These people experience direct impact -injury, loss of life, as well as costly disturbances in the production processes - from industrial incidents, therefore effective learning from and prevention of incidents is of vital importance to them. The series is also of direct benefit to relevant regulatory bodies, policy makers and third-sector representatives associated with health and safety. Organisations include the Health and Safety Executive, the British Safety Council, the UK regional Environmental Agencies (EPA, SEPA, etc), Step Change in Safety, the Safety and Reliability Society, the European Process Safety Centre, TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research), Oil and Gas UK, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), National Air Traffic Services (NATS), the National Coastguard Agency, Southwest Trains and Lloyds Register (Maritime). Industrial incidents sometimes bring about environmental degradation and loss of livelihood for communities and society at large. Therefore, another beneficiary is society as a whole.

How will they benefit from this research?

We have secured participation of a significant number of representatives of these potential beneficiaries (amounting to a quarter of the total number of the series participants), including a range of industries, government, and professional and third-sector bodies. They have committed to actively participating in the series, either as speakers or as contributors who will contribute to specific knowledge co-production activities we have designed into the seminars. Short- and medium-term impact arises from their exposure to innovative, interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological insights from a range of disciplines they do not yet collaborate with could trigger insights for novel applications within their own organisation. The concepts and thinking they help evolve through the seminars will stimulate fresh ideas, which these beneficiaries are committed to taking back to and implementing within their organisations, and potentially integrating these into their operational plans and activities. Co-production of series outputs by industry and policy stakeholders alongside researchers extends shared ownership, improving the likelihood of adoption and application of research in real-world settings. Long-term impact from this seminar series is expected to include enhancements in the health and well-being of employees; fostering economic performance of the United Kingdom, through improved individual, group and organisational learning from incidents, and increased effectiveness of LFI policy, through improved conceptualisation and research-based evidence.
 
Description We organised and successfully completed all 6 seminars in this seminar series. Seminars included a wide range of speakers and participants nationally and internationally from a variety of disciplines across Social Sciences, Life Sciences and Engineering and a sectors, including academia, 3rd sector organisations (British Safety Institute, professional bodies (Energy Institute), government (HSE), and the industry (BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Dana Petroleum to name a few). For more details see 'Engagement Activities' section.

The seminars attracted over 150 participants, including 27 keynote speakers - academics, practitioners and policymakers - from a wide range of organisations and sectors from 7 countries across Europe and the US and 10 different disciplines/fields.

Each seminar included knowledge co-production activities, through which the following key outputs were produced jointly by scholars, postgraduate students, practitioners and policymakers:

1) An initial list of key questions/challenges for research and development in Learning from Incidents
2) A conceptual model of Learning From Incidents (LFI) representing multiple perspectives within which relevant interdisciplinary theories could be positioned.
3) An inventory of extant and potential methodologies that could be used to research LFI
4) A set of 6 focus areas and challenges for future research in learning from incidents.

6 working papers were produced describing each of these results in detail (see Publications section).

A major programmatic paper outlining a research and development agenda for LFI was produced on the basis of the seminars. The paper has been accepted for publication in Safety Science journal.

A special issue of Safety Science journal on Learning from Incidents is currently under production. The special issue is co-edited by the PI (Margaryan) and the Co-investigators (Stanton and Littlejohn) - see Awards and Recognition section for further details.

The seminars raised awareness of the importance of learning from incidents in the industry and exposed the participants to a wide range of disciplinary and sectoral research, practices and policies in learning from incidents. For more details see 'Engagement Activities' section.
Exploitation Route We were able to attract a significant level of participation from research users (amounting on average to a third of the total number of the series participants), including a range of industries, government, and professional and third-sector bodies. In the short- and medium-term, these potential beneficiaries' exposure to innovative, interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological insights from a range of disciplines they had not hitherto collaborated with might trigger insights for novel applications within their own organisation. Participants reported that the concepts and thinking they helped evolve through the seminars stimulated fresh ideas, which these beneficiaries were committed to taking back to and implementing within their organisations, and potentially integrating these into their operational plans and activities. Co-production of series outputs by industry and policy stakeholders alongside researchers extends shared ownership, improving the likelihood of adoption and application of research in real-world settings.
Sectors Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Chemicals,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Pharmace
URL http://lfiseminars.ning.com/
 
Description Our stated objectives with regards to impact were as follows: *Short-term impact: Building an understanding of LFI as a critical area of health and safety among practitioners and policy-makers *Medium-term impact: Applying enhanced approaches to LFI in the companies participating in the seminar series. *Long-term impact: Establishing LFI as a research area impacting practice and policy, in particular enhancing the health and quality of life of employees and fostering economic performance of the United Kingdom, through improved individual, group and organisational learning from safety incidents. The short-term objective has been achieved. The seminars have succeeded in engaging a large number of research users and beneficiaries who reported improved understanding, awareness and insight into. This is evidenced in detail in 'Engagement activities' and 'Key results' sections. The medium-term objective has also been achieved. Knowledge and ideas generated through the seminar series have been applied by participants in their organisations. In preparation of this impact report, I asked participants to identify how the seminar outputs have been used. Key examples quoted by the participants are listed below: 1) Ideas from the seminar series have been applied at Costain Group: "What I have taken away is a need to revisit our corporate approach to incident investigation to draw out points of learning but also how these can be disseminated to the organisation. We are currently revising our approach to draw out better lessons from incidents/events while, at the same time, working on more varied approaches to passing on those lessons - our organisation has staff from lower-skilled operatives to highly technical engineering staff and a single or few approaches are clearly not reaching everyone across this spectrum." Richard Roff, Group Process Safety Manager 2) Seminar generated industry-research collaboration for a UK company: "They were a great series of events to attend, and much better for me than most of the paid events I attend! One major outcome for my organisation, CIRAS, is now using the skills of one of your presenters, Professor Lasse Gerrits, to do some 'big data' analysis on our database. We invited him to give a talk at a 'food for thought' session (similar to the presentation he gave at the learning from incidents seminar), and we discussed our own organisational requirements after that, leading to the current work. So I'm very positive about the seminars. It was a great way for professionals to exchange ideas and information in the best academic tradition - publically, and for free, as a delegate." Chris Langer, Scheme Intelligence Manager 3) Ideas from seminars implemented at HU Tech: "Seeing how LFI was practiced in other sectors [was helpful]. Normally I would get most of my learning from within my own sectors (oil & gas / rail) and would not get much exposure to people doing the same work in other sectors. I found the healthcare and construction examples very informative and I have taken some of the approaches forward in the advice I now give to clients." Rob Miles We expect that it will take some time for long-term impacts - establishing LFI as a research field and measurably increasing effectiveness of LFI practice and policy - to materialise. We have agreed a procedure and have an instrument in place to systematically and regularly collect data on future impact from this work to 2021.
First Year Of Impact 2016
Sector Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Construction,Education,Energy,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Transport,Other
Impact Types Societal,Economic
 
Description LFI toolkit applied and evaluated within NHS Grampian
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Membership of stakeholder review board for Energy Institute's Hearts and Minds programme, guidance document and recommendations on Learning from Incidents
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description Postgraduate research funding, Glasgow Caledonian internal
Amount £65,000 (GBP)
Organisation Glasgow Caledonian University 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2015 
End 09/2018
 
Description ESRC CREST project proposal 
Organisation Ulster University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution This proposal is co-led by Dr Dane Lukic (Glasgow Caledonian), one of the key participants of the seminar series. The seminar series stimulated considerable discussion around the transferrability and applicability of concepts, processes and approaches to learning from incidents (LFI) to a broader range of types of organisational problems beyond safety incidents (eg financial, security, management and personnel issues). The ideas about relevance of LFI to other areas stimulated the submission of this research bid linking safety and security cultures and learning from those similar, yet, different types of incidents. A project proposal titled 'Enhancing Organisational Security Culture in Security Critical Environments' was submitted by Dr Lukic in collaboration with Professor Rhona Beattie (Glasgow Caledonian), lead by University of Ulster.
Collaborator Contribution Dr Dane Lukic, a key participant of the seminar series, co-leads this collaboration.
Impact Project proposal submitted to ESRC CREST
Start Year 2015
 
Description EU Horizon 2020 proposal consortium BOLSTER (2016-2017 Mobility for Growth H2020-MG-2016-2017) 
Organisation Erasmus University Rotterdam
Country Netherlands 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Arising directly from the seminar series, the purpose of this collaboration was to devise a joint project proposal for the EU Horizon 2020 Mobility for Growth 2016-2017 Call. Titled 'Big data-Optimized Learning for Safer Transport in European Railways' (BOLSTER), this project aims to deliver effective data-driven safety management in transport by utilizing and implementing sensitive corporate data. We will develop a state-of-the-art data analysis technique, which will be embedded in an EU-wide implementation framework to bolster transport safety and policy coordination efforts. Our method will be applied to incident reports (IR) that are recorded but under-utilized due to difficulties in data processing and in implementing proper procedures. Sensitive corporate data has major potential for big data applications and exploitation in the context of transport safety. The contextual analysis as well as the development and use of our data application will highlight the roadmap towards better utilization of sensitive data and to learning from incidents in transport. The lead partner of this consortium, Professor Lasse Gerrits, University of Bamberg, Germany, was a participant of this seminar series and a key speaker at one of the seminars (seminar 5). Another partner of this consortium, the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board (represented by Mr Chris Langer of their CIRAS department) was an active participant of the seminar series. These partners did not have a pre-existing relationship prior to the seminar series. Following the discusions and interactions within the seminar series, Professor Margaryan (the PI of this seminar series) was invited by Professor Gerrits to join the project consortium to contribute expertise in learning from incidents and in implementation and evaluation of learning from incidents processes, and to lead a workpackage on this topic. Proposal evaluation results are expected in summer 2017.
Collaborator Contribution Professor Lasse Gerrits leads the project consortium, contributing expertise in complexity and the governance of complex systems as well as big data analysis, in particular transport systems. Mr Chris Langer contributes the link to the railway industry and access to large databases on railway accidents and incidents.
Impact Horizon 2020 project proposal SEP-210412777.
Start Year 2016
 
Description EU Horizon 2020 proposal consortium BOLSTER (2016-2017 Mobility for Growth H2020-MG-2016-2017) 
Organisation Rail Safety and Standards Board
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Arising directly from the seminar series, the purpose of this collaboration was to devise a joint project proposal for the EU Horizon 2020 Mobility for Growth 2016-2017 Call. Titled 'Big data-Optimized Learning for Safer Transport in European Railways' (BOLSTER), this project aims to deliver effective data-driven safety management in transport by utilizing and implementing sensitive corporate data. We will develop a state-of-the-art data analysis technique, which will be embedded in an EU-wide implementation framework to bolster transport safety and policy coordination efforts. Our method will be applied to incident reports (IR) that are recorded but under-utilized due to difficulties in data processing and in implementing proper procedures. Sensitive corporate data has major potential for big data applications and exploitation in the context of transport safety. The contextual analysis as well as the development and use of our data application will highlight the roadmap towards better utilization of sensitive data and to learning from incidents in transport. The lead partner of this consortium, Professor Lasse Gerrits, University of Bamberg, Germany, was a participant of this seminar series and a key speaker at one of the seminars (seminar 5). Another partner of this consortium, the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board (represented by Mr Chris Langer of their CIRAS department) was an active participant of the seminar series. These partners did not have a pre-existing relationship prior to the seminar series. Following the discusions and interactions within the seminar series, Professor Margaryan (the PI of this seminar series) was invited by Professor Gerrits to join the project consortium to contribute expertise in learning from incidents and in implementation and evaluation of learning from incidents processes, and to lead a workpackage on this topic. Proposal evaluation results are expected in summer 2017.
Collaborator Contribution Professor Lasse Gerrits leads the project consortium, contributing expertise in complexity and the governance of complex systems as well as big data analysis, in particular transport systems. Mr Chris Langer contributes the link to the railway industry and access to large databases on railway accidents and incidents.
Impact Horizon 2020 project proposal SEP-210412777.
Start Year 2016
 
Description EU Horizon 2020 proposal consortium BOLSTER (2016-2017 Mobility for Growth H2020-MG-2016-2017) 
Organisation University of Bamberg
Country Germany 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Arising directly from the seminar series, the purpose of this collaboration was to devise a joint project proposal for the EU Horizon 2020 Mobility for Growth 2016-2017 Call. Titled 'Big data-Optimized Learning for Safer Transport in European Railways' (BOLSTER), this project aims to deliver effective data-driven safety management in transport by utilizing and implementing sensitive corporate data. We will develop a state-of-the-art data analysis technique, which will be embedded in an EU-wide implementation framework to bolster transport safety and policy coordination efforts. Our method will be applied to incident reports (IR) that are recorded but under-utilized due to difficulties in data processing and in implementing proper procedures. Sensitive corporate data has major potential for big data applications and exploitation in the context of transport safety. The contextual analysis as well as the development and use of our data application will highlight the roadmap towards better utilization of sensitive data and to learning from incidents in transport. The lead partner of this consortium, Professor Lasse Gerrits, University of Bamberg, Germany, was a participant of this seminar series and a key speaker at one of the seminars (seminar 5). Another partner of this consortium, the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board (represented by Mr Chris Langer of their CIRAS department) was an active participant of the seminar series. These partners did not have a pre-existing relationship prior to the seminar series. Following the discusions and interactions within the seminar series, Professor Margaryan (the PI of this seminar series) was invited by Professor Gerrits to join the project consortium to contribute expertise in learning from incidents and in implementation and evaluation of learning from incidents processes, and to lead a workpackage on this topic. Proposal evaluation results are expected in summer 2017.
Collaborator Contribution Professor Lasse Gerrits leads the project consortium, contributing expertise in complexity and the governance of complex systems as well as big data analysis, in particular transport systems. Mr Chris Langer contributes the link to the railway industry and access to large databases on railway accidents and incidents.
Impact Horizon 2020 project proposal SEP-210412777.
Start Year 2016
 
Description EU Horizon 2020 proposal consortium BOLSTER (2016-2017 Mobility for Growth H2020-MG-2016-2017) 
Organisation ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG
Country Austria 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Arising directly from the seminar series, the purpose of this collaboration was to devise a joint project proposal for the EU Horizon 2020 Mobility for Growth 2016-2017 Call. Titled 'Big data-Optimized Learning for Safer Transport in European Railways' (BOLSTER), this project aims to deliver effective data-driven safety management in transport by utilizing and implementing sensitive corporate data. We will develop a state-of-the-art data analysis technique, which will be embedded in an EU-wide implementation framework to bolster transport safety and policy coordination efforts. Our method will be applied to incident reports (IR) that are recorded but under-utilized due to difficulties in data processing and in implementing proper procedures. Sensitive corporate data has major potential for big data applications and exploitation in the context of transport safety. The contextual analysis as well as the development and use of our data application will highlight the roadmap towards better utilization of sensitive data and to learning from incidents in transport. The lead partner of this consortium, Professor Lasse Gerrits, University of Bamberg, Germany, was a participant of this seminar series and a key speaker at one of the seminars (seminar 5). Another partner of this consortium, the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board (represented by Mr Chris Langer of their CIRAS department) was an active participant of the seminar series. These partners did not have a pre-existing relationship prior to the seminar series. Following the discusions and interactions within the seminar series, Professor Margaryan (the PI of this seminar series) was invited by Professor Gerrits to join the project consortium to contribute expertise in learning from incidents and in implementation and evaluation of learning from incidents processes, and to lead a workpackage on this topic. Proposal evaluation results are expected in summer 2017.
Collaborator Contribution Professor Lasse Gerrits leads the project consortium, contributing expertise in complexity and the governance of complex systems as well as big data analysis, in particular transport systems. Mr Chris Langer contributes the link to the railway industry and access to large databases on railway accidents and incidents.
Impact Horizon 2020 project proposal SEP-210412777.
Start Year 2016
 
Description Seminar 1, Learning from Incidents: Mapping the problem space (Glasgow, UK) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The inaugural seminar in this seminar series was attended by 41 participants from the UK, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. 30% of the seminar participants were (senior) representatives and practitioners from:
- a range of industries, including multinationals and SMEs (eg BP, Pinsent Masons LLP, E.ON, SSE, Dana Petroleum, Phillips66, Bilfinger, Costian Group Plc)
- government bodies (Health and Safety Executive)
- professional bodies (Energy Institute), and
- third sector organisations (British Safety Council)

Presentations included talks from both scholars and practitioners. These were followed by a structured knowledge co-production activities, in which ideas from the presentations were discussed and debated in interdisciplinary and intersectoral groups. Participants from academia and user communities jointly formulated and prioritised key questions for future research and development in learning from incidents. Two working papers were produced as a result of this event (see publications section). Participants reported increased understanding of multidisciplinary and intersectoral perspectives; improvement of their own practice; exposure to new literature that was unfamiliar to them; establishment of new networks; intention to implement ideas discussed in their own organisations; and appreciation of opportunity to engage with academia (particularly SMEs commented on this).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
URL http://lfiseminars.ning.com/mappinglfi
 
Description Seminar 2, Theorising Learning from Incidents (Aberdeen, UK) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This seminar was attended by 47 participants from the UK, the US, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy. The majority, 63%, of the seminar participants were users and beneficiaries of research, including:
- representative of several types of industries such as oil and gas, healthcare, transport and types of organisations including multinationals and SMEs (eg Shell, Centrica, Baker Hughes, Bristow, NHS, Dana Petroleum, AMEC, Kellstone, doctors.org.uk, Petrotechnics)
- government bodies (Norwegian Petroleum Authority)
- professional bodies (Energy Institute), and
- third sector organisations (British Safety Council)

Presentations included talks from both scholars and practitioners. These were followed by a structured knowledge co-production activity, in which participants jointly developed a conceptual model of Learning from Incidents and outlined key disciplinary and theoretical concepts and approaches from across social sciences, engineering and life sciences that could be brought to bear on the nascent filed of learning from incidents. These included input from practitioners.

Participants reported increased understanding of theoretical perspectives previously unfamiliar to them; exposure to new literature and the academic perspective on learning from incidents; enhanced opportunity to share knowledge; stimulation to think about LFI in new ways.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://lfiseminars.ning.com/theorisinglfi
 
Description Seminar 3, Methodologies for researching learning from incidents (Southampton, UK) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Participants of this seminar included senior representatives of the Energy Institute (international professional body for the energy sector), British Safety Council, and representatives of several small and medium consultancy companies active in the area of learning from incidents (LFI). The seminar included a knowledge co-production activity in which scholars and practitioners jointly reviewed a range of key LFI methodologies, including those currently practiced within the industry, identifying gaps and areas where interdisciplinary methodological development is required. Through structured evaluation of the event, participants reported enhanced and broadened understanding and knowledge of methodologies in LFI; intention to consider how the methods can be used to enhance LFI approaches within their organisation; intention to read on some of the methodologies presented at the seminar especially those that have not been hitherto widely used in LFI (such as ethnography).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://lfiseminars.ning.com/lfimethodology
 
Description Seminar 4, Policy and practice in Learning from Incidents (London, UK) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The seminar was attended by a mixed group of scholars and research users, the latter forming the majority of the seminar participants (62%). Participants were from the UK, the Netherlands and Germany.

Specifically research beneficiaries who attended the seminar included:
- senior representatives of large companies and multinationals in the energy, law, construction, communications and manufacturing (eg BP, Pinsent Masons LLP, Sir RobertMcAlpine, EDF Energy, Phillips66, RR Donnelly, E.ON)
- senior members of international professional bodies for the energy sector (Energy Institute) and finance and investment (Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment, CISI)
- Dutch applied research and consultancy organisation TNO
- third sector organisations (British Safety Council)

The presentations from law, construction and other sectors were followed by a lively debate and discussion between scholars, practitioners and PhD students and postdocs. Participants reported (through structured evaluation) development of insights into LFI issues and challenges from different organisations and sectors; improved networks; formation of new ideas that they intended to implement in their workplace; intention to disseminate knowledge obtained at the seminar within their own organisation; improve their training materials on the basis of the knowledge and insight gained at the seminar; intention to rethink their own organisational practice of LFI; intention to use knowledge obtained at the seminar in order to review the relevant procedures in their organisation (with their senior management) and educate their staff in the procedures to be implemented.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://lfiseminars.ning.com/lfipracticeandpolicy
 
Description Seminar 5, Linking research and practice in Learning from Incidents (London, UK) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 27 participants attended this event, of which 48% were research users. Participants were from the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, and Finland.
Research beneficiaries were from multinationals, SMEs and government and professional bodies across energy, transport, finance and public sectors including BP, Aeroassurance, Energy Institute, Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment, Eurocontrol, the British Safety Council among other.

Presentation from scholars and practitioners were followed by a plenary discussion of key challenges in linking research and practice in learning from incidents, in which participants from these diverse sectors jointly identified several opportunities for strengthening links between academics and practitioners. Participants reported being positively challenged, fascinated and inspired by the leading edge research and practice presented at the seminar; intention to read up on the research presented; as well as intention to share knowledge obtained through the seminar within their own organisation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://lfiseminars.ning.com/researchtopractice
 
Description Seminar 6 - Research and development agenda for learning from incidents 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was the final seminar in the series, attended by the core seminar members. The core members included (senior) academics and postgraduate researchers from a range of UK universities; industry partners from Anglo American (mining) and Phillips 66 (oil and gas); professional bodies (Energy Institute); and R&D organisations internationally (the Dutch TNO). The seminar focused on presentation and round table discussion of a research and development agenda for learning from incidents that brought together the contributions, concepts, ideas and questions prioritised through seminars 1-5. The seminar also focused on the discussion of the impact of the seminar series and the next steps including future publications, grants and other forms of collaboration. A procedure for systematic gathering of current and future impact was discussed and agreed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://lfiseminars.ning.com/lfiagenda