Incident Reporting and Investigation

Analyze Weaknesses To learn from incidents, the final step is to recognize that the incident prediction and management systems are not perfect. Implementing practices to learn from mistakes and allowing continuous improvement to the systems to prevent incidents is essential. These practices are incident reporting and investigation processes. 

Making the employees owners of the incident reporting and investigation system. 

Quality Assurance in Incident Reporting and Investigation, Ujwal Ritwik... 

Incident Reporting and Investigation Accident Prevention Signs and Tags Hand Safety Back Injury Prevention Behavioral Safety Bloodborne Pathogens Confined Space Lockout/T agout Drug and Alcohol HazCom... 

Absolutely, there has to be a documented incident reporting and investigation procedure. But, that s not enough. It s recognized in the model companies that specialized training is necessary to achieve sophistication... 

Most importantly, results of investigations and the actions to be taken concerning causal factors are publicized. Quality of incident reporting and investigation required or tolerated is a principal measure of the accountability system, and of the culture of which the accountability system is a part. It s very difficult to achieve effectiveness in other aspects of hazards management if corrective action is not taken concerning the causal factors for the incidents that do occur. 

Accident and near-miss incident reporting and investigation Fire prevention and protection... 

Increased consistency and identification of incident reporting and investigation, including prioritization and prevention of adverse events and near misses ... 

A set of instructions designed for the protection of personnel. Typical safety procedures include incident reporting and investigation, first aid or medical assistance... 

A process for incident reporting and investigation should be estabfished, with an emphasis on free exchange of information without penalty to the persons who report an incident (see Appendix G for a sample incident report form). The objectives are to maintain a culture in which people feel comfortable in sharing information about problems they have encountered and promote an understanding that laboratory workers personal safety is paramount. 

Management now set standards of accountability by delegating authority to certain positions for ongoing safety work to be done. Coordination and management of the NEMIRR system needs to be allocated to certain departments and individuals and this standard dictates who must do what, and by when, to run the system. The preceding example of a standard clearly defines who is responsible for a number of aspects of the near miss incident reporting and investigation system. 

Near miss incident reporting and investigation Environmental protection Emergency awareness Fire control... 

Accident/Near Miss Incident Reports and Investigations... 

The following document is an example of an organization s near miss incident system standard that describes the organization s commitment to near miss incident reporting and investigation, and also clearly spells out responsibilities. 

Accident investigation Accident and record analysis Incident reporting and investigation... 

Macrae, C. (2007). Analysing near-miss events Risk management in incident reporting and investigation systems. ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation Discussion Paper 47, London School of Economics and PoUtical Science, London. 

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