Investigation & Root Cause Analysis

Employers and employees can identify risks in their operations and flaws in their safety and health programs by investigating a worksite incident, such as a fatality, injury, sickness, or close call. Most importantly, it allows employers and employees to identify and enforce the necessary corrective actions to avoid future incidents.

An employer's commitment to a safe and healthful workplace is demonstrated by incident investigations that focus on identifying and correcting root causes, not on finding fault or blame, also improve workplace morale and increase productivity. 

Accident/incident investigation and analysis is a method of determining the root cause of an accident in order to prevent future incidents. As a result, the investigation or analysis must yield information that leads to corrective actions to prevent or mitigate workplace accidents.

Legal training requirement / obligation on the employer

• Osha strongly encourages employers to investigate all incidents in which a worker was hurt, as well as close calls (sometimes called "Near misses"), in which a worker might have been hurt if the circumstances had been slightly different.

Training course content

• Definition
• What is near misses / incident /accident
• Current laws, regulations, and codes of practice
• Investigation team formation
• Investigation tools and equipments required
• Role and responsibility of investigation team members
• Steps of investigation
• Evidence collection and interviews
• Root cause finding
• Damage calculation
• Record finding.

Learning outcome of training

• Knowledge of definitions like accident investigation
• Need to investigate accidents
• Information about accident sequence model
• Knowledge on initial response to an accident
• Interviewing techniques
• Identifying the root causes of the accident
• Role plays for developing investigating skills
• Knowledge on accident ratio safety
• Compliance to legal requirements of the oh&s act
• Knowledge on loss causation model
• Collecting information
• Organizing and analyzing the available information
• Making recommendations for the corrective actions

Who should attend the training

• Manager
• Engineer
• Supervisor
• Safety officer / manager / engineer

Benefits of training

• Understanding the causes behind the occurrence formulating measures to prevent such or even more serious incidents.
• Help in improving the safety standard in the organization
• Help in building the confidence among the workforce for reporting any incident accident and near misses.
• Encourage the workforce in following all the safety rules.
• Managerial skill and workforce behavior can be further improved based on the positive recommendation of the investigations.