The Dutch Safety Board; Onderzoeksraad Voor Veiligheid (OVV), (literally "The Research Council for Safety") is based in The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

, The Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. The first chairman was Pieter van Vollenhoven

Pieter van Vollenhoven

Pieter van Vollenhoven, Jr. is the husband of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and a member of the Dutch Royal House.-Early life and career:Born in Schiedam, he is the second son of Pieter van Vollenhoven, Sr...

, who served until February of 2011. He was succeeded by Tjibbe Joustra

Tjibbe Joustra

Tjibbe Herman Jan Joustra is a Dutch civil servant. He is chairman of the Association of Private Security Organizations and Detective Agencies and of the horticultural association...

, the current chairman..

History

The formation of the DSB occurred after the Enschede

Enschede

Enschede , also known as Eanske in the local dialect of Twents, is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region...

 fireworks disaster and the Volendam

Volendam

Volendam is a town in North Holland in the Netherlands, in the municipality of Edam-Volendam. The town has about 22,000 inhabitants .- History :...

 café fire.

The DSB was formed in 2005 by a merger between the defence and public transportation safety boards. The field of maritime investigation will be added in the future.

Areas of investigations

Operational sectors of investigations include:

• Aviation (commercial, passenger and private aviation)
• Shipping (inland navigation and some segments of recreational navigation)
• Rail transport (railways and increasingly also tram, metro and light rail)
• Road transport (due to the high number of accidents, only thematic investigations)
• Pipelines (pipelines, public utilities included)
• Defence (military aviation, navigation, road transport, underground infrastructure)
• Industry and trade (heavy industry (especially process industry, labour accidents))
• Crisis management and aid provision (performance of aid and control services)
• Healthcare (human and animal)
• Nature and environment (impact of aviation, marine operations, railroad and transportation)

Structure

The board acts as an autonomous organisation. Its code of conduct is established by law.

The organisation consists of a Board and a Bureau. The Board has five permanent members, the Bureau fulfills executive tasks.

Sources

This article incorporates text from www.safetyboard.nl, a public domain

Public domain

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 work of the Dutch government.

External links

• Dutch Safety Board
• Dutch Safety Board (Dutch)