Occupational Safety

Accident Investigation - Principles of Effective investigation

Carrying out your own health and safety investigations will provide you with a deeper understanding of the risks associated with your work activities. Blaming individuals is ultimately fruitless and sustains the myth that accidents and cases of ill health are unavoidable when the opposite is true. An effective investigation requires a methodical, structured approach to information gathering, collation and analysis. The findings of the investigation will form the basis of an action plan to prevent the accident or incident from happening again and for improving your overall management of risk.

30 minutes
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Every year people are killed or injured at work. Many million working days are lost annually through work-related accidents and illnesses.

This course gives organizations an opportunity to find out what went wrong. Learning the lessons and taking action may reduce, or even prevent, accidents in the future.

As a step-by-step guide, it will help all organizations, particularly smaller businesses, to carry out their own health and safety investigations. Investigating accidents and incidents explains why you need to carry out investigations and takes you through each step of the process:

Step one: Gathering the information.

Step two: Analyzing the information.

Step three: Identifying risk control measures.

Step four: The action plan and its implementation.

1. Hazard and Risk

1 minutes

2. Unsafe Condition, Unsafe Act, Near miss

1 minutes

3. The Causes

1 minutes

4. Need of Accident Investigation

4 minutes

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