The Dutch Safety Board (DSB); (Dutch) Onderzoeksraad Voor Veiligheid (OVV), (literally "The Research Council for Safety") is based in The Hague, The Netherlands.[1][2] The first chairman was Pieter van Vollenhoven, who served until February 2011. He was succeeded by Tjibbe Joustra, the current chairman.[3][4]
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The formation of the DSB occurred after the Enschede fireworks disaster and the Volendam café fire.[2]
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.
Operational sectors of investigations include:
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.
This article incorporates text from www.safetyboard.nl, a public domain work of the Dutch government.
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