We have experience in leading and participating in accident investigations, both within Australia and overseas. This has included the Royal Commission into the fatal accident that occurred at Longford in 1995 as well as other judicial inquiries (collision between two light aircraft causing fatalities; and spill of 70,000 L of sulfuric acid into a sensitive natural environment) and internal investigations.

Our experience allows us to plan and implement a timely and efficient accident investigation. We do this through using structured interviews as well as reviewing reports from experts, such as metallurgists and aviation engineers, to arrive at a reasoned understanding of what went wrong and how a similar accident could be prevented in the future.

Where necessary, we are able to present our findings in legal hearings, such as prosecution for polluting the environment, to aid the court in understanding technical aspects of the accident.

The investigation processes that Bow-Tie Consulting employs enable us to identify the relevant factors (and failures) that contributed to the incident.  The techniques used include:

• Root Cause Analysis
• Timeline analysis
• Fault tree analysis
• Event tree analysis