If a health and safety incident occurs in your workplace, your managers and your workers need to know what to do in the aftermath.
It is essential that you have procedures in place for:
reporting an incident
notifying the health and safety regulator (if the incident is notifiable)
preserving the incident site, and
investigating the incident
Make these procedures available to all workers and train them in the procedures to ensure your workers know their role if a workplace incident were to occur.
While the best policy is always prevention, you need to know how to react as well to minimise the damage.
Today we have a checklist for you regarding carrying out an internal investigation and the type of information you need to gather and include in your investigation report.
What to include in an investigation report
Gather the following information to include in the investigation report:
a description of the injured person’s condition or the damage to property or environment
photographs of the site
brief notes of the interview with the injured worker and other witnesses
details of where any plant or equipment involved in the incident is now located (if it has been moved)
contact details of any witnesses who were not interviewed, and
brief notes by the investigating worker as to the circumstances in which the incident occurred
Remember, it is important that the report does not include any speculation or opinion as to the cause of the incident.
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