Cormorant management model and corrective action on the JR West accident
(Oct.2w,2005)

Last month the investigation committee for the accident issued the interim report and still detailed operations of the driver are not found.
Now I will comment on the accident from the standpoints of cormorant management model and 8.5.2 Corrective action in ISO9001:2000.

1. Cormorant management model
A cormorant fisherman has several reins which hold cormorantsf each neck. Therefore, a cormorant fisherman is a manager and cormorants are operators.
In the case of the accident the driver is likened to a cormorant.
The interim report says that the driver did not any operative actions for forty seconds just before the accident. There left forty seconds mystery.
But who is a cormorant fisherman for him? How about handling reins? Is there any mishandling? There are no deep investigations for such field (refer to gFictitious the first press conference on the derailment accident of JR West: May.2w, 2005h in Social problems relating ISO9001 corner on this web-site).

2. Corrective action
Before the accident the driver had received disciplinary actions for thirteen days with wage cut for his overrun mistake in last June. In this case the disciplinary actions correspond to corrective actions mentioned in 8.5.2 clause of ISO9001:2000.
If the actions were effective, there would be no accident. So the responsibility of ineffective corrective actions taken is up to management (refer to gRe-training as a disciplinary action for an operator with wage cut: May.1w, 2005h and gTaboo terms in the documents of the re-training as a disciplinary action: Jun.5w, 2005h in Social problems relating ISO9001 corner on this web-site).
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The requirements of reviewing corrective action taken in 8.5.2 f) clause of ISO9001:2000 should be done strongly and rightly (refer to gJapanese peculiar problem on Japan note for 8.5.2 f) clause: Aug.2w, 2005h and gSequel to the problem on Japan note for 8.5.2 f) clause: Aug.3w, 2005h in 8.5 of Individual clauses relating ISO9001:2000 corner on this web-site).