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How do I find books?
The following titles may be useful to gain an overview of technological disasters. Use the Library catalogue to locate additional titles. Work through the StartSmart tutorial for an overview of using the Library catalogue.
Available from the Wollongong Campus library:
| Title | Call number |
|---|---|
| Human error: by design? (Case studies of errors in aviation) | 363.1241/2 |
| Failed technology: true stories of technological disasters (2 vol.) | 904.7/15 |
| When technology fails: significant technological disasters, accidents and failures of the Twentieth Century | 363.1/34 |
Disaster web sites
- Emergency Management Australia
Provides statistics on Australian disasters, including loss of life and injury and cost - Danger Ahead: Historic railway disasters
This site examines issues relating to railway accidents and the development of practices that have contributed to safe rail travel
Australian incidents
Illawarra
- Appin Mine Explosion Disaster (1979)
- Appin Mine Disaster Inquiry 1979-80 (UOW Archives: Collection D157. Ak at Research Help Desk for assistance)
- Bulli Colliery Gas Explosion (1887)
- Bulli Colliery Gas Explosion - 1887 (Illawarra Coal)
- Bulli Colliery underground fire (1965)
- Accident at Bulli Colliery on 9th November, 1965 : report of Judge A.J. Goran (UOW Archives: ARC 363.119622/33. Ask at Research Help Desk for assistance)
- Coledale Landslide (1988)
- Board of Inquiry into Failure of Embankment at Coledale on 30 April 1988 (UOW Archives: ARC 363.12209944/1. Ask at Research Help Desk for assistance. Also held at Wollongong Public Library.)
- Mount Kembla Colliery Gas Explosion(1902)
- The Mount Kembla disaster (book) 363.11962233/2
- Mount Kembla Colliery Disaster: Report of the Royal Commission (622.8099446/1). (Also available in the UOW Archives: Collection A579. Ask at Research Help Desk for assistance)
- Mt Kembla Colliery Gas Explosion, 1902 (Illawarra Coal)
- Waterfall train derailment (2003)
- Waterfall Rail Safety Investigation
Includes the McInerney Inquiry, the NSW Government response to the final report, and the ITSRR reports on implementation of NSW Government's response to the final report. - Special Commission of Inquiry into the Waterfall Rail Accident (McInerney Inquiry)
Both interim and final reports are available in Archives and Folios 363.122/2
via CityRail
via Ministry of Transport - Article published in the Medical Journal of Australia:
Hocking, Bruce (2006). The Inquiry into the Waterfall train crash: implications for medical examinations of safety-critical workers. MJA, 184 (3): 126-128.
via Medical Journal of Australia - Rail Safety Regulator's Report on the Rail Accident at Waterfall (Jan 2004)
Executive summary
Full report - NSW Government's response to the Rail Safety Regulator's Report on the Rail Accident at Waterfall
- Waterfall Rail Safety Investigation
NSW
- Boral Gas Plant Explosion, St Peters, Sydney (1990)
- Chemical inquiry : a report to the Minister for Industrial Relations, Further Education, Training and Employment, the Hon. John Fahey, M.P. (UOW Archives: ARC 363.1709944/4 (3 vols). Ask at Research Help Desk for assistance)
- Glenbrook Rail Accident (1999)
- Special Commission of Inquiry into the Glenbrook Rail Accident
- Engineering expertise and the Glenbrook rail disaster: A review of the final report (The Institution of Engineers, Australia)
- Granville train derailment (1977)
- Report on the formal investigation of an accident ... line at Granville 18 january 1977 (Parliamentary Paper no 159, 1976-77, page no 1099) Use in Library only (S 328.94401/4). (Also available in the UOW Archives: Collection A347. Ask at Research Help Desk for assistance)
- Danger ahead: Granville, Sydney, Australia 1977
- Gretley Mine inrush disaster(1996)
- NSW Department of Primary Industries, Gretley Inquiry documents.
- Thredbo Landslide (1997)
- Report of the inquest into the deaths arising from the Thredbo landslide
- (UOW Archives ARC 363.349099447/1. Ask at Research Help Desk for assistance)
Other Australian states and territories
- Beaconsfield Goldmine collapse, Tasmania, 25 April 2006 - Beaconsfield Investigation web site
- Esso Longford Explosion Disaster, Victoria(1998)
- The Esso Longford gas plant accident: report of the Longford Royal Commission (KN/198.3.K2V/VIC/1)
- An evaluation of the impact of the 1998 Esso Longford explosion (The Institution of Engineers, Australia)
- Lessons from Longford : the Esso gas plant explosion (363.119665/1)
- HMAS Westralia (1998)
- Kianga No. 1 Mine, Queensland (1975)
- Warden's Inquiry report (Wardens Court of Queensland)
- Moura Mines, Queensland (1975, 1986, 1994)
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- Moura Inquiries (Wardens Court of Queensland)
- Tasman Bridge collapse, Tasmania (1975) - Lake Illawarra (a 7274 ton carrier) collides with Tasman Bridge
- Court of Marine Enquiry into the S.S. Lake Illawarra. Report No. 157 (Available in the UOW Archives: ARC 363.12365/4. Ask at Research Help Desk for assistance)
- Aftermath, The Tasman Bridge collapse: criminological and sociological observations (KM/713.K2T/WHE/1)
- Bridge gone: the severed artery (photographs)
- West Gate Bridge Collapse, Victoria (1970)
- Report of Royal commission into the Failure of the West Gate Bridge
(Available in the UOW Archives: ARC 624.4099445/1. Ask at Research Help Desk for assistance) - Disaster at West Gate: Eye witness
- The West Gate bridge and Pat Preston
- Report of Royal commission into the Failure of the West Gate Bridge
International incidents
- Channel Tunnel fire, Europe (1996)
- Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Russia (1986)
- The Chernobyl site and accident sequence (World Nuclear Association)
- Chernobyl Ten Years On, radiological and health impact, OECD NEA report (Nov 1995)
- Fact sheet on the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
- Concord aircraft fire and crash, France (2000)
- K-219 Russian nuclear submarine accident, Bermuda
- October Fire (video recording) (363.119359/1)
- Soviet Submarine K-219
- Kings Cross Underground Railway Fire (UK)
- Appleton Inquiry Report: Report of an inquiry into health and safety aspects ... (F 363.2870941)
- Investigation into the King's Cross Underground Fire. London. Department of Transport (F 363.379/10)
- Kings Cross Underground Railway Fire London 1987
- King's Cross: beneath the flames (video recording) (363.379/9)
- Mikhail Lermontov Russian cruise ship (1986)
- The last cruise of the Mikhail Lermontov
- Shipwreck: Mikhail Lermontov (Christchurch City Libraries)
- Paddington rail crash, London (1999)
- Cullen Report - a summary (Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry)
- Paddington rail crash, news item, Guardian newspaper online, UK (includes other UK train incident reports)
- Piper Alpha North Sea oil rig disaster (1988)
- The public inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster (KN/87.3.A1/CUL/1)
- Space Shuttle Challenger (1986)
- Space Shuttle Columbia (2003)
- Texaco Refinery explosion and fires (1994)
- Three Mile Island nuclear accident, US (1979)
- Tokaimura Radiation Accident, Japan(1999)
- Union Carbide gas explosion, Bhopal India(1984)
- Incident review
- Union Carbide: Disaster at Bhopal (Jackson Browning report)
- Accident summary and Failings in technical measures (Hazardous Installations Directorate)
Content by Health and Behavioural Sciences Faculty Librarian
Last reviewed: 8 January, 2010
