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Services | Specialist
Scientific Facilities
Incident Investigations
 HSL
offers a wide range of expertise and facilities for the forensic
investigation of work-related incidents including:
• Experienced, specially trained, rapid response teams
• Multi-disciplinary capability - from fires, explosions,
process hazards and engineering through analytical and biomedical
services to human factors
• Highly specialised stills and video photography for recording
scientific and forensic evidence
• A nationwide and offshore capability
• Coverage of a wide industry base
• Preparation of witness statements and presentation of expert
evidence in court
We are involved in both small and large scale investigations - ranging
from pesticide over-exposures and fracture of engineering components
through to major incidents such as the Ramsgate walkway collapse
and the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster.
For further information
on incident investigation - the human factors perspective, please
click here
Examples of some of our major incident investigations are:
Improving
the Safety of Detaching Hooks
Investigation
of Major Rail Accidents
Walkway Collapse
at the Port of Ramsgate
Investigation
of the Avonmouth Bridge Platform Collapse
Further Details
Contact our Business Development Unit by telephone (+44) 01298 218218,
fax (+44) 01298 218822 or email hslinfo@hsl.gov.uk.
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