Incident investigation - An investigation is also required where the incident did not involve injury to an employee, or involved only minor injury that did not require medical treatment, but had a potential for causing serious injury.
Investigation process
An investigation is to be carried out by persons knowledgeable about the type of work involved. As far as practicable, the investigation is to:
- determine the cause or causes of the accident/incident,
- identify the unsafe conditions, acts or procedures that contributed to the accident/incident, and
- where unsafe conditions, acts or procedures are identified, recommend corrective action to prevent similar accidents/incidents from occurring.
Investigation reports are to include the following information:
- the date, time and place of the accident/incident,
- the names and job titles of all persons injured in the incident,
- the names of all witnesses,
- a description of the incident,
- an outline of the sequence of events that preceded the incident,
- the identification of unsafe conditions, acts or procedures that contributed in any manner to the incident,
- the recommended corrective actions required to prevent similar occurrences, and
- the names of the persons involved in the incident investigation.
