E-Books:Investigating accidents and incidents

A workbook for employers, unions, safety representatives and safety professionals

Every year people are killed or injured at work. Over 40 million working days are lost annually through work-related accidents and illnesses. This workbook gives organisations 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 organisations, 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: Analysing the information

Step three: Identifying risk control measures

Step four: The action plan and its implementation

Contents

Reducing risks and protecting people 3

Understanding the language of investigation 4

The causes of adverse events 6

Why investigate? 7

A step by step guide to health and safety investigations 12

Gathering the information 13

Analysing the information 19

Identifying risk control measures 23

The action plan and its implementation 24

References and further reading 26

Adverse event report and investigation form: Worked examples 28

Adverse event report and investigation form: Blank form 56

Adverse event analysis: Rooting out risk 66

Adverse event analysis: Worked examples 73

Adverse event analysis: Blank form 83