Accident
Investigation
Workplace accident investigation is
an ideal tool identify the outcomes which will arise after the accident.
Why do you need to investigate
occupational accidents?
For identification the cause of
incident.
To prevent comparative accidents
later
To meet legal needs.
To determine the cost of an
accident
Determines the consistency of
product safety guidelines.
To process a worker's payment
request
In either case, you should
investigate the event, which does not include injury or property damage, to
determine which risks need to be adjusted. Don't believe you are twice as
happy.
It is important for the organization
to review the accident concisely at the moment of the actual accident occur.
Inappropriate or false investigations
can confuse the problem and increase the expected risk. Accident investigations
are conducted by health and safety experts who visit the site to understand the
current reality.
The purpose of accident
investigation is to avoid reoccurrence.
Similar accidents can occur later if
you can’t able to find the reason for the accident once you have done the
identification you can easily find a way to control or eliminate it.
Frustration is rarely a reason of an
accident. Workplaces, work restrictions, management issues or lack of work
experience can be the reasons of an incident.
You need to examine all these to
determine what is the reason behind the incident, once identified we can
eliminate it or control it.
Once the cause is identified,
precautions should be taken and applied to prevent recurrence. HSE Officers
should always remember that successful accident investigation involves finding
the truth, not the errors.
To explain why and how the accident
happened? Safety officers need to collect data about incident that occurred
before and during the incident. The safety officers were then able to determine
the circumstances of the incident /accident by looking at the actual evidence
and meeting with the witness. It is important to kept the record of the steps
taken after the accident.
Three things we need to
consider for preventing accidents.
1.
The data which we collect needs to
be investigated adequately.
2.
A recovery drill needs to be
conducted.
3.
All the activities must be adhered
with local legislative.
Important measures which need to be
consider for accident investigation.
Your organization's safety and
health for the projects should include the following things for Accident
Investigation.
What type of error do you need to
investigate?
Who needs to investigate and what
needs to be investigated?
What kind of preparation do safety
officers need to make investigation?
Who examines the report and provides
awareness and suggestions?
Do I Need a medical treatment for all
injury/Wounds?
Incident lead to property damage?
Are there any accidents that could
cause real injuries or serious financial accidents?
Reportable accident
All the accidents that will in
result of serious injury need to be reported to the Ministry of labor (MOL). It
is a legal requirement to report it to concern authorities. Ministry will then
issue the advisory to all the related parties to avoid the reoccurrence.
