Who Should Investigate

The supervisor, foreman, or manager directly in charge of the area in which the event occurred should be the prime investigator. In some instances, the safety and health representative may have been appointed as the event investigator, but this should not free the immediate manager of his/her responsibilities to investigate the accident or near miss incident. 

Always delegating this responsibility to the safety coordinator or safety department is not acceptable. The safety coordinator should only assist the line management in investigating the event because he/she is an expert in this field and can be used as a resource. 

The extent of the loss should not determine who should carry out the investigation. Past experience has shown that once there are fatalities, multiple fatalities, or great financial loss as a result of an accident, only then does top management get involved. What should determine participation in the near miss incident or accident investigation procedure is the potential for loss of the event, or what could have happened under slightly different circumstances  

It should be remembered that the difference between a near miss incident with no loss and an accident with great loss is only a matter of luck. The undesired event or near miss incident should receive as much attention as the accident that resulted in severe injury. 

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Given the fact that incident investigation is a process at least as complex as auditing, and given the very limited reliability of auditing (see Chapter 7), we believe that extreme care is necessary in order to ensure a reliable investigation process, hi order to maximize reliability, it is necessary to have a very clearly defined process. This definition should include who should investigate and how. 

Nonemergency medical care should be arranged for hazardous waste site personnel who are experiencing health effects resulting from an exposure to hazardous substances. Off-site medical care should make sure that any potential job-related symptoms or illnesses are evaluated in the context of the employee s exposure. Off-site medical personnel should investigate and treat non-job-related illnesses that may put the employee at risk because of task requirements [1]. 

In electronic data packages used in held studies, there are some electronic data that are directly entered by the held investigator (FI) and some that are generated by the program (e.g., dates and times). Both types of raw data need to be verified by QA personnel, who should check not only directly entered data, but also computer-entered data. In order to conduct a thorough data audit, QA should determine which data are direct entry and which are automatic. 

Chemical facilities should investigate what networks and information sources might be available to them locally, and at the state and regional level. If a facility cannot gain access to some information networks, attempts should be made to align with those who can and will provide effective information to the chemical facility on a timely basis. 

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From many companies perspectives, classification by severity is the most common classification system used to establish when to investigate an incident and who should be on a team. The main disadvantage with using severity alone to establish team membership is that it does not consider the potential loss from the occurrence, such as that with a high potential incident. In addition, the complexity of the system involved should also be used to determine team composition as more complex systems might require a larger team to understand the data. 

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In Japanese clinical trials, a controller is often appointed. This is usually an academic expert (for example a professor of clinical pharmacology or biostatistics) who should be independent of both the sponsoring company and the investigators. His role is to ensure that the study is performed safely, and without bias, and that the published results are accurate . Therefore, his function includes, for example, randomisation, confirmation of the double-blindness of the study medications, and confirmation of code envelope integrity at the end of the study. 

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Each investigation will have a leader who should be trained in the investigation process. He or she will work with the sponsor and the owner to develop the investigation s terms of reference and then to conduct the investigation. 

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