Safety and Risk Management

Running Head: SAFETY AND RISK MANAGEMENT
SAFETY AND RISK MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Details of the Incident:.....................................................................................................................3
Role of the Faulty Breaches:............................................................................................................4
Reason behind the accident:............................................................................................................5
Changes made as precautionary measures:......................................................................................6
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................6
References:......................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction:
One of the most horrifying incidents in the Australian accidents is the Granville Disaster.
It occurred in the year of 1977 on 18th of January. It was on Tuesday and it was rush hour, there
were a lot of people and boarding the train and most of the people were travelling for work. The
train was therefore overly crowded therefore, the train had problem in making steep turns. Thus,
the train has faulty case of the safety breaches that made the tracks of the train tracks vulnerable,
thus making it prone to the accident. Hence, the number of the people in the train was making the
train heavier and unable to therefore it was unable to make flexible turns. The bridge on which
the train was having pressure and the train got de-railed from its tracks and thus making it prone
to collapse (Rapattoni, Dauth, Muscat & Prasad, 2017, April). The incident occurred in the
suburbs of Granville, New South Wales. The train ran into the support of a road bridge that also
collapsed simultaneously. The bridge being derailed went out of control; hence, the train ran into
the road bridge, which collapsed on the two carriages of the train. The carriages was fully packed
with people and a lot of them were crushed to death in the very spot. The accident was fatal and
hence number of injuries as well as the death of people was a lot. It affected deeply in the social
and the public life of Australia, hence the people of Australia suffered a grave disaster after a
long time, with a great amount of loss of life. The incident marked loss of loves since the post
war incidents that shook Australia from its ground. After a long time so much loss of life in a
confined area happened in the heart of Australia (Kayes & Yoon, 2016). This was quite
horrifying for the people of Australia. As they were deeply shaken from inside as their public life
was harmed to minor mistakes and therefore the government had to act fast to recover the
situation and treat the injured and the affected people and help them by supplying aid to their
families. This incident remains as one of the most dangerous rail disasters in the history of