2: Don't Roll On Me
10/30/15 • 24 min
Roll cages in cars are supposed to improve safety but do they actually cause the problem they're trying to protect you from?
With John Chidgey.
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Episode Silver Producer: Chris Stone.
With John Chidgey.
Links of potential interest:
- Rollover
- A METHODOLOGY FOR ESTIMATING VEHICLE ROLLOVER PROPENSITY THAT COMBINES STABILITY FACTOR AND HANDLING METRICS (PDF)
- Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
- Center of Mass
- CDC Mining Risks
- Traffic Safety Facts: Pedestrians
- U.S Census Bureau Population Estimates (2004)
- List of Motor Vehicle Deaths in U.S. by Year
- Safety Cell 6 Point Internal ROPS
- BHP Accused of Rolling Over on Vehicle Safety
- Operator Roll-over Protection on Small Vehicles
- Roll-over Protection Structure
- ANCAP Frequently Asked Questions
- 5 Star ANCAP Rating Changes to BMA Site Vehicles (PDF)
- Follow Up Evaluation of Electronic Stability Control Effectiveness in Australasia
- Tilt test (vehicle safety test)
Support Causality on Patreon
Episode Silver Producer: Chris Stone.
Roll cages in cars are supposed to improve safety but do they actually cause the problem they're trying to protect you from?
With John Chidgey.
Support Causality on Patreon
Episode Silver Producer: Chris Stone.
With John Chidgey.
Links of potential interest:
- Rollover
- A METHODOLOGY FOR ESTIMATING VEHICLE ROLLOVER PROPENSITY THAT COMBINES STABILITY FACTOR AND HANDLING METRICS (PDF)
- Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
- Center of Mass
- CDC Mining Risks
- Traffic Safety Facts: Pedestrians
- U.S Census Bureau Population Estimates (2004)
- List of Motor Vehicle Deaths in U.S. by Year
- Safety Cell 6 Point Internal ROPS
- BHP Accused of Rolling Over on Vehicle Safety
- Operator Roll-over Protection on Small Vehicles
- Roll-over Protection Structure
- ANCAP Frequently Asked Questions
- 5 Star ANCAP Rating Changes to BMA Site Vehicles (PDF)
- Follow Up Evaluation of Electronic Stability Control Effectiveness in Australasia
- Tilt test (vehicle safety test)
Support Causality on Patreon
Episode Silver Producer: Chris Stone.
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1: BP Texas City
The BP Texas City Oil Refinery disaster in 2005 shocked the world. With many safe-guards in place and lost-time injury rates so low, how could so many people be killed in a wholly preventable disaster?
With John Chidgey.
Links of potential interest:
- The U.S. Chemical Safety Board
- Texas City Refinery Explosion
- Isomerization
- Human Factors Influencing The Texas City Incident (PDF) (Archive.org)
- Lessons from Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur
- Diesel Engine Runaway
- BP Completes Sale of Texas City Refinery (Archive.org)
- The Refinery Today (Archive.org)
- Texas City, Texas: Google Maps Location
- BPs Statement of Facts (PDF) (Archive.org)
Notes:
- Original version released: 16th October, 2015
- Re-written and Re-recorded: 20th August, 2023
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Episode Gold Producers: 'r' and Steven Bridle.
Episode Silver Producers: Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Lesley, Jared Roman, Joel Maher, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring, Dave Jones and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.
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3: Fukushima
What went wrong with Fukushima 1 Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011.
With John Chidgey.
Links of potential interest:
- List of Nuclear Power Stations
- Nuclear Reactor
- Water for Power Plant Cooling
- Why Fukushima Was Preventable
- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
- 2011 Toøhoku Earthquake and Tsunami
- Soøma, Fukushima
- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
- S.C.R.A.M.
- Chicago Pile-1
- Zirconium Alloy
- Review of the Oxidation Rate of Zirconium Alloys
- IAEA Warned Japan Over Nuclear Quake Risk
- Timeline for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident
- Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency
- Fukushima Accident
- The Fukushima Wasteland
- Electricity Generation
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Episode Silver Producer: Chris Stone.
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