The track of industrial incident investigation and analysis and developing trends

Industrial incidents investigation study came along with industrial revolution,and root cause analysis,especially systematic analysis started in 50's and 60's last century.It could be said there are four stages in the development of incident investigation and root cause analysis,single Cause-Effect,Multiple Causes-Effect,Systematic Causes-Effect and Professional Causes-Effect Analysis.In early time,incident investigation and cause analysis focus on single,immediate and seemingly factors(causes),and now,are to search root causes,recommend corrective actions and improve performance.Root cause analysis,today,have become a professional business.The incident investigation and analysis track and stages will be introduced and popular theories and practices,Fishbone,Bowtie—Fault Tree and Event Tree,Triopod and Taproot,in different stages will be described in this paper.