The following titles may be useful to gain an overview of technological disasters. Use the Library catalogue to locate additional titles. Work through the ILIP 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
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
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 Disaster: Report of the Royal Commission (622.8099446/1). (Also available in the UOW Archives: Collection A579. Ask at Research Help Desk for assistance)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
