Critical Review and Redesign of a Petroleum Industry Accident/Incident Reporting System

Petroleum transportation accidents often cause losses of millions of dollars and take human lives. SIGA (Integrated Anomaly Management System) is an accident/incident reporting system that was designed by the largest petroleum transportation company in Brazil, to help remediate these accidents. SIGA´s function is to track reported accidents and their cost, determine the cause of these accidents, identify solutions, communicate accidents to relative parties, document the passing of information, and protect the company and employees from litigation. While the existing system administers the workflow of accident remediation, it lacks the functionality necessary for holistic posterior analysis. Such analysis is critical and would enable the examination of all reports to find patterns. This paper proposes a software solution to track large quantitative data sets composed from incident reports in order to preemptively identify potential hazards and recommend appropriate actions to eliminate future hazards before they occur