Last updated 22 January 2010
This website was made by
www.whitequeen.nl. White Queen BV is a company specialising in strategies for accident prevention and analysis,
safety management and safety management auditing with over 25 years
experience in safety consulting.
Storybuilder is a software tool developed by safety specialists for
the Ministry Of Social Affairs and Employment (The Netherlands). It
supports occupational and major accident analysis, investigation,
inspection and identification of ways to improve safety.The purpose of this
web site is to provide
support to Storybuilder software users. We've provided a number of resources here to
help you report and resolve problems, suggest improvements and learn
about using Storybuilder.
The most recent released version is available FREE on request (request
via email - see Support Forum)
- Storybuilder v. 2.0.45 (December 2009) with help files (15
August 2008)
Data also available FREE on request (request via email - see Support Forum)
- all serious reportable accidents 1998-Feb 2004. Full data for machines and
falling objects was completed in March 2009. So if you have the
old db, request the new one. There are now 12656
unique accidents and 13094 victims
in Storybuilder superfile v17.
Storybuilds have a
detailed event structure of causes and effects. See Web Help
14.1 Box
codes guide
Additional download support
- Storybuilder User Manual in Dutch and English
(8th March 2008)
- Storybuilder printable software help in English (15th August 2008)
- Scientific background, including building rules
Useful data:
- Facts and figures sheets in English and Dutch covering over 9000 accidents
History of the Database
In 2004-2006 a team was formed for analysing
occupational accident investigation reports made available by the
Dutch Labour Inspectorate. In this period the software tool
StoryBuilder was developed to support the development of an events
structure.
Accidents were analysed in order to build cause and
effect event structures according to strict building rules. The key
components of these structures are safety barriers and their modes
of failure which were identified from the accident investigations by
applying a set of building rules.
The accidents analysed are reportable occupational
accidents between 1998 and February 2004. Around 2000 serious
accidents are investigated per year by the Dutch Labour Inspectorate
(an estimated 1% of all occupational accidents, taking into account
underreporting). Data are stored in a data base called GISAI (Geïntegreerd
InformatieSysteem ArbeidsInspectie). It contains information on
reported accidents and investigations of accidents which are
reportable according to article 9 of the Dutch Working Conditions
Act if they are occupational accidents resulting in serious physical
or mental injury (death within 1 year, permanent injury, in-patient
treatment in hospital within 24 hours).
The nature of these accidents has been described in
earlier publications available in Downloads
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