The library holds an array of texts which might help this type of search, the list below is a handful of them. You should use SUPrimo to search for others relevant to the disaster or failure you are researching.
Engineering Disasters
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When Technology Fails
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Beyond Failure
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How Did That Happen?
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To Forgive Design
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Use SUPrimo to search our print and electronic library collections, including: books - journal titles - databases - electronic resources - theses - exam papers - media resources - course material.
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Occupational Health and Safety Information Service (OHSIS) provides up-to-date reference sources of key Health and Safety documentation relevant to the workplace. OHSIS covers Health and Safety issues such as training, first aid, electrical safety, manual handling, dangerous substances, fire safety, and environmental health guidance. It also includes a selection of British Standards relating to Health and Safety and government legislation and documentation from organisations such as ROSPA and HSE, all available in full text.
Nexis provides full-text coverage of newspapers worldwide, plus press releases, transcripts of TV broadcasts, newswires, magazines and trade journals.
Public Information Online is a searchable database providing access to official publications from UK legislative bodies and governments. It includes full-text documents from the UK Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Scottish Government, Northern Ireland Assembly, Welsh Senedd, and selected non-parliamentary sources.
UK Parliament documents, include:
• House of Commons and House of Lords Papers (from 2006/07 and 1901 respectively).
• Public Bills, Explanatory Notes, Command Papers, Acts, and Statutory Instruments.
• Hansard (from 1803 for Commons and 1909 for Lords).
• Committee reports, financial statements, and other parliamentary proceedings.
Scottish Parliament coverage starts from Session 3 (May 2007) onwards and includes legislative and procedural documents such as:
• Bills (public and private), Explanatory Notes, Policy Memorandums, and Financial Memorandums.
• Official Reports (debates), Minutes of Proceedings, Written Answers, and Committee Reports.
• Business Bulletins and Marshalled Lists of amendments.
• Full texts of Acts and accompanying explanatory materials.
Scottish Government publications, available from 2009 onwards include:
• Annual reports, consultations, and research findings.
• Documents spanning diverse policy areas such as education, health, environment, justice, and economics.
Useful for: All disciplines - especially Education, Government & Public Policy, Law, Politics, Social Work & Social Policy.
Access to bibliographic references of grey literature from Europe. Grey literature includes technical and research reports, doctoral dissertations, some conference proceedings and some official publications.
Take time to plan the keywords you are going to use in your search. What type of engineering disaster are you interested in; a bridge collapse, an offshore catastrophe, a railway accident, an aircraft crash, a structural failure, a disaster at sea? As well as your main keywords think about associated terms such as faults, defects, negligence, engineering failures etc. Map out a list of alternative terms that you want to search for and keep a note of these.
Also plan out the type of documents and information sources that you think may be relevant to your literature review – books written about the disaster, general works on engineering failures with case studies that include the incident you are interested in, eyewitness accounts, press reports and newspaper material, journal articles in professional and academic engineering journals, government committees of enquiry, legislation at the time and any subsequent changes to improve safety procedures, health and safety documentation and industry codes of practice.
This will all help you to choose where to search. SUPrimo Library Collections tab will tell you what books, journals and reports we have in stock, the Articles + databases tab will help you find specific articles. Specialist databases such as OHSIS or ProQuest's Engineering Collection can help you find more detailed references, other useful sources to search are linked in the right hand column below.
For further help pop by the enquiry desk on Level 4.
