Inquests and inquiries
This is the companion podcast to two websites. The first is about the use of risk analysis in emergency planning and intelligence. The second is to increase understanding about the causes of disasters and loss of life by making it easier to access information on them. This can be from inquests, inquiries or other forms of investigation. The channel will use a mix of interviews, case studies and even some experiments with AI podcasters! The channel logo is a sinking black swan. The concept being that work on better understanding of disasters should allow us to ’sink’ black swan events, especially where they were potentially avoidable or not as unknown as we thought.
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14 hours ago
14 hours ago
My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning
The Inquests and Inquiries Dawn Sturgess inquiry page Vale of Leven Hospital | Inquests & Inquiries
This episode examines the outbreak of Clostridium difficile infection between 2007 and 2008 at teh Vale of Leven hospital in Scotland and the subsequent inquiry and government response.
Sunday Feb 23, 2025
Sunday Feb 23, 2025
My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning
The Inquests and Inquiries Dawn Sturgess inquiry page Dawn Sturgess Inquiry | Inquests & Inquiries
The government inquiry page is The Dawn Sturgess Inquiry – Inquiry into 2018 Salisbury poisonings
and the document used to train the AI is https://dsiweb-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/INQ000612_Part-1-Page-1-132.pdf
It is just the first of multiple packets of evidence as a test, but it produced an interesting result.
Sunday Feb 16, 2025
Sunday Feb 16, 2025
This episode uses examines the Redfern Inquiry.
The Redfern Inquiry investigated the removal and analysis of organs from deceased nuclear workers in the UK between 1961 and 1992, and examined the legal and ethical problems with it. It is often considered alongside the tissue sampling of Miners and presumptions of consent with may have gone beyond the deceased and the family's wishes.
The documents and more information is available on the companion website below.
My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning
The Inquests and Inquiries Redfern inquiry page Redfern | Inquests & Inquiries
Saturday Feb 08, 2025
Saturday Feb 08, 2025
This episode discusses the report from the first module of the Covid 19 inquiry and the government response.
It is supported by a full page UK Covid-19 Inquiry | Inquests & Inquiries which has additional videos, resources and links to download the report and the response.
Sunday Feb 02, 2025
Sunday Feb 02, 2025
This episode uses almost 60 reports over 20 years to train an LLM and ask the podcasters to answer three questions:
What does this all mean for a non-medical professional?
Are things getting better?
What are the trends?
My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning
National Maternity and Neonatal Recommendations Register - Home
National Maternity and Neonatal Recommendations Register - Published Reports
Bulk download of all reports
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
This is an analysis of the causes and contributing factors, themselves identified from three train inquiries
The Southall Rail Accident inquiry can be found here: HSE_Southall1997.pdf
and the excellent Railway archives have a full page about it here The Southall Rail Accident Inquiry Report :: The Railways Archive
Ladbroke Grove
Ladbroke-Grove-Rail-Inquiry-Report-Part-1.pdf
Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry Report Part 2
Clapham Junction
Investigation into the Clapham Junction Railway Accident :: The Railways Archive
This is a series with a companion website:
Inquests and inquiries
www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
This is an analysis requested by listeners, looking at the Inquiry report and the Kerslake report. It is an AI episode, with a human introduction and then analysis of the documents by the AI podcasters.
The Kerslake report is here the-kerslake-report.pdf
The Manchester Arena attack inquiry reports are here Manchester Arena Inquiry reports - GOV.UK
with the archived inquiry site here [ARCHIVED CONTENT] About – Manchester Arena Inquests
This is a series with a companion website:
Inquests and inquiries
www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries
Sunday Jan 19, 2025
Sunday Jan 19, 2025
Episode 6 is an exploration of 3 documents on flooding inquiries and incidents in the United Kingdom.
The discussion, after an initial introduction, is entirely by two AI presenters and their discussion is the result of analysis of the documents by a large language model.
This is a series with a companion website:
Inquests and inquiries
The specific referenced sources are below:
The sources uploaded are:https://www.jesip.org.uk/downloads/boscastle-floods-debrief-report/
https://www.jesip.org.uk/downloads/carlisle-flood-report/
https://www.jesip.org.uk/downloads/hull-floods-june-2007-report/
www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries