Storybuilder: The New Interface for Accident Analysis (PSAM-0044)
Linda J. Bellamy, Oh, J. I. H., Ben J. M. Ale, J.Y. Whiston, M Mud, H. Baksteen, Andrew Hale, Ioannis A. Papazoglou · ASME Press eBooks · 2006
A tailor-made software development within the Dutch Workgroup Occupational Risk Model (WORM) project for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment provides a totally new way of analyzing and presenting accident data. The method of data presentation enables the fine details of hundreds if not thousands of accidents to be presented simultaneously on a single screen. These data can be further queried on screen by the user with enormous flexibility and with the possibility to export and tabulate queried data. The mode of presentation combines graphics similar to fault and event trees with text boxes and lines which follow the individual accident pathways ("horrible stories") through the model structure. The data is quantified by counting the number of pathways through a node (box) or combinations of nodes using a Boolean syntax.