Analysis Of The Hillsborough Tragedy

This tunnel led down to pens 3 and 4, the pens situated directly behind the goal. Although there was another tunnel leading to pens 1 and 2, this was poorly signed. When Gate C was opened, the mass influx of people went straight ahead, into Tunnel 2. Because of this, those already in pens 3 and 4 began to get crushed. In the space of a few minutes, 2,000 fans had entered the tunnel marked 2. Some fans climbed over the fences into less packed pens. However, those at the front of pens 3 and 4 had no way of getting over the high metal fences and became crushed against them. One barrier in pen 3 collapsed, causing fans to fall on top of one another. Some fans were dragged to safety by those on the upper tiers, while others managed to climb into other pens. At 3.06pm, the referee ended the game. Advertising boards were used as makeshift stretchers to help those who had been crushed and First Aid was given by other supporters to the injured. Only two ambulances reached the scene of the crush and out of the 96 that died that day, only 14 were ever admitted to hospital. The main causes of this human crush was because of police error in knowledge of crowd control and inability to keep order. The stadium was also the cause because it was unsafe for large crowds and had been given a false safety

To complicate matters, one of the attending police were called away to another housing commission unit, as there a male person, who was suffering cardiac arrest, as a result of drug overdose. Whilst this was unrelated, it impacted on the resources of police, as well as requiring a further paramedic response. Police treated this incident separately, as it may have eventuated into natural or unnatural death under the s. 3 of the Coroners Act 1995 (Tas). There were also implications and considerations under the Misuse of Drugs Act 2001 (Tas).

As an organisation that manages health and safety we recognise that the relationship between controlling risks and general health is at the very centre of the business itself. The starting point for managing health and safety in the workplace which:

Encourage and help organizations assemble crisis management plans before having the need to use them is a number one goal for the director to keep in mind. In the case of a casualty involving a train wreck causing the leakage of pollutant in the city, as the head of the hospital, the first

The teens of Hillsborough will be receiving a new and improved sports complex to be built on Hillsborough Road in the near future.

The current Hillsborough inquest can be referred to as a Middleton inquest as it is compliant with article 2. But most importantly this type of inquest deals with ‘how’ and ‘under what circumstances,’ the deceased came about death, having being ruled into the CJA 2009 under section 5. In doing so, the Supreme Court created a new legal procedure for inquests, closing the gap between the UK’s idea of an adequate investigation, and that of Strasbourg’s. Now, bearing in mind that the Hillsborough verdict was quashed based on the fact that new evidence -especially the ‘how’ - which had not been considered during the original inquest, have been brought to light, this leads me to conclude that the current Hillsborough inquest would be very effective

The Hillsborough tragedy of 1989 was a disaster that took over the UK like a storm. Where at a Liverpool FC football match, there was a surge of fans entering the stadium this caused overcrowding and 96 lives were lost due to being crushed against a fence, which separated the pitch and the fans. Because of this tragedy there were huge debates about whether standing was to be allowed at football matches any longer, people that debated the subject ranged from the general public to MPs. After the disaster, there was a law brought into place to ban standing at football. However, this law has changed throughout the years and is now very close to being taken away completely. Each team have a wide variety of fans, including young children to grandma

The use of risk management has been seen nationwide by public and private organizations and even in nations abroad where the nation’s allies and assets are present. Many civilian and private organizations have come to rely on such tools as they have clearly been useful in many events since the idea has been put into effect. Risk management has provided an avenue of obtaining insight into the needs of an event and how many resources or what actions are necessary to take in response to one or before one occurs and preemptively position oneself for the best possible outcome. While organizations like FEMA the military and many private security firms use their own personal take on the matter it is a generally accepted methodology and tool that is seen homeland security manuals and publications. NIPP NIMS and CIRK have all made mention of the process of risk mitigation in some form or another and they make their process public for others to use as well

Chapter three is Operations, this area is the most recognized are of the incident management. The main purpose of this section is to reduce the hazards and to save lives and properties. In this section it integrates the board cross-section of accidents. The NIMS helps by providing the critical framework and the guidelines to the Operations Section when it comes to any accident.

Analyse operational effectiveness of emergency control equipment Apply emergency prevention principles Implement emergency prevention solutions Implement maintenance auditing and fault reporting procedures Report emergency prevention problems and suggestions for correction Access is required to: • scenarios that reflect a range of emergency situations that may be expected in the workplace • workplace emergency management plan • workplace emergency procedures • emergency control organisation policy documents • emergency planning committee policy documents Competency should be demonstrated over time with a range of emergencies that could be expected in the workplace Competency should be assessed in the workplace or in a simulated

Disasters that might occur or accidents are not part of any organizations plans. The administrative aspect of organizational deviance is needed to fully understand it. When managers fail to execute proper procedures and enforce rules, an administrative breakdown occurs. This failure from managers is the reason why organizational deviance occurs (Dias & Vaughn, 2006 as cited in Giblin, 2014). Events resulting in deviance can be caused by terrible decision making from lack of information. “The problem, referred to as structural secrecy, inhibits knowledge acquisition and development within organizations” (Giblin, 2014, 133).

The goal for risk management in the event industry should be to allow maximum range of activities to be enjoyed in a safe environment. The golden rule of risk management is to "approach event risk assessment and risk management from the perspective of audience

Failures that could result in core damage are defined at this stage with their associated frequencies. This stage requires the layout of the plant and plant documentation in order to build up an information database of the facility. This is followed by brainstorming potential initiating events which are the result of the loss of control of a particular safety function, this leads to the construction of an event tree which illustrates

This systems approach seeks to identify lessons in order to predict future disasters within industry because of the isomorphic nature of these systems. From an organizational perspective, Toft and Reynolds (2005 cited in Module 1, Unit 5: 5.6) argued that although disasters are low frequency events when viewed in the context of one organization, managers could benefit from isomorphic foresight if they viewed incidents which occurred across the whole industry and learned from one another, where organizations and/or operations are similar. Thus, given the availability of theoretical models and empirical evidence, it would appear to be a rational assertion that industrial disasters could be prevented because industry could learn from its own experiences. However, there are a number of barriers to this, both in general and specifically, due to limitations on isomorphic learning.

Attacks such as 9/11 and other recent disasters have forced organizations to become more proactive rather than waiting for an emergency to happen and then responding afterwards which leads to astronomical costs and fines to companies. The approach to risk management in organizations is looking more extensively at their technology infrastructure and deciding the best ways to recovery of data and making sure the employees can still work. Organizations have greater awareness of the importance of recovery and the time an organization will need to recover. Additionally, organizations are spending more money on IT and new technologies that will allow employees to continue working and allow the organization to still function even in the event of