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Research

Research reports

Long-form reports on serious injuries and fatalities (SIF), critical controls and weak signals, with the source beside every figure.

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  • Research report The controls that prevent a fatality 2026 · Placeholder

    Research report · Critical controls

    The controls that prevent a fatality

    Many operations have spent a decade driving recordable injury rates down. This report asks whether the controls that prevent a fatality have improved at the same pace, and how a leadership team would know.

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  • Research report · Verification

    Verifying critical controls in the field

    What a field verification should check, who should do it, and how to tell a verified control from a signed form.

    Forthcoming In preparation

  • Research report · Weak signals

    Weak signals in permit-to-work

    How the deviations, workarounds and late changes inside a permit system can point to the conditions for a serious event.

    Forthcoming In preparation

All reports listed here are placeholders pending editorial review.