As you advance your team in a quality accident investigation program, it is imperative to continue their training to improve their skills. This accident investigation training is for intermediate level, so it is best recommended to start with the beginner’s training here. 5 Step Investigative Process Response Fact Finding Analysis Corrective Action Follow-up The investigation […]
As an employer, it is your responsibility to provide a safe working environment for your employees. A great tool at your disposal, often overlooked is incident investigation. So many employers document an incident, taking statements, and cataloging that information away, until the next accident happens. BUT, if you instead investigate every incident, both near miss […]
Accidents happen in the workplace. It’s an unfortunate but true fact. In despite of all the hard work companies do to avoid accidents, occasionally something goes wrong. When it does it’s important to conduct a thorough investigation into what went wrong. After all, it’s even more of a tragedy if someone else gets hurt or […]
After conducting a thorough accident investigation, you will come up with corrective actions. These corrective actions need to be implemented for change management. Corrective and preventative actions are generated from varying sources including safety meetings, inspections, accident investigations, unsafe act and unsafe condition reporting and from audits, and are simply measures that need to be […]
OSHA has specific reporting requirements for serious injuries that occur within a facility. The OSHA notification requirements are as follows: Hospitalization: This is for a work related hospitalization, and must be reported within 24 hours; Amputation: This is for a work related amputation, and must be reported within 24 hours; Loss of Eye: This is […]
A proper investigation after an accident is best summarized with a post accident investigation report. This form is a summary of your entire investigation, and should be completed with assistance from all statements, evidence, witnesses, and the injured party. Accident investigations are intended to determine the cause of an incident, to identify unsafe conditions or […]
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), these are injuries to the skeleton, muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and joints that support and bind tissues and organs together so the body can move and sustain itself. MSDs are the most common injury at work. They cost the economy dearly in lost productivity and high workers compensation costs. This is despite […]
Many times when an accident occurs that is just property damage, it is overlooked in the investigation process, because no injury occurs. That is actually a root cause of an injury accident, because if property damage was investigated thoroughly, it could identify issues that if events were different could have resulted in an injury. When […]
An accident analysis report should be conducted for every accident, but also conducting an accident analysis for a near miss will create a safer workplace. It may seem excessive to treat every near miss as a full accident, but a near miss is just an accident where someone didn’t happen, this time. A quality incident […]
As part of every incident investigation, the employee’s supervisor or manager should provide a statement. This is important for the validity of every claim. When taking the statement, ensure to have the manager to include anything relevant from before the accident, a knowledge of near misses, past incidents with this employee, any behavior by the […]