A Practical Guide to Effective Workplace Accident Investigation
eBook - ePub

A Practical Guide to Effective Workplace Accident Investigation

  1. 244 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Practical Guide to Effective Workplace Accident Investigation

About this book

This book explains how accidents and high potential near-miss incidents are caused, and how to eliminate recurrences by effective accident investigation methods. It shows how to conduct an immediate and root cause analysis so that remedial measures can be taken to prevent a recurrence of similar events. The book shows how to apply the Logical Sequence Accident Investigation Method in the case studies presented.

The book:



  • Provides a practical guide to accident causes, investigation and prevention.



  • Explains immediate and root causes in detail.



  • Gives a number of problem-solving methods for the accident investigator to use.



  • Introduces the Logical Sequence Accident Investigation Method.



  • Provides a practical accident investigation evaluation system.

The book discusses important topics including hazard identification and risk assessment, workplace health and safety, accident causation and prevention theories, the updated accident domino sequence, as well as safety management system standards and controls.

The text is primarily written for professionals and graduate students in the fields of occupational health and safety, ergonomics and human factors engineering.

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Index

Note: Italic page numbers refer to figures.
  • abuse/misuse 165–166
  • accident 4–5
    • acts of nature 10
    • Boxcor Manufacturing 211
    • complex events 20
    • contact 15
    • contact control 15
    • immediate causes 9
    • vs. incident 6–7
    • injury vs. 5
    • investigation 10–11
    • investigation responsibility 14
    • job (workplace and environment) factors 10
    • layers of causes 9
    • loss of product and process 6
    • personal (human) factors 10
    • post contact 15
    • pre-contact 15
    • precursors to 7
    • reporting of 33–34, 34
    • root causes of 10, 131, 145
  • accidental loss 92–96, 92–96
  • accident causation 19, 29
    • accident/incident theory 25
    • combination theory of 24
    • energy release theory 25
    • epidemiological theory of 23
    • HIRA system 186
    • human factors theory of 23
    • pure chance theory 26
    • remedial measures 28
    • single event theory 24–25
    • Swiss Cheese Model 25–26
    • symptoms vs. causes theory 26
    • systems theory of 23–24
  • accident causation theories 20
  • accident/incident theory 25
  • accident investigation
    • logical sequence 28
    • objective of
      • accident site 44
      • documented evidence 44
      • events 44
      • evidence 44
      • Fixing the Workplace, not the Worker 45
      • follow-up 46
      • getting job done 45
      • legal requirement 43
      • safety culture 43
      • systematic review 43
      • system failure 45
      • timeline 44
      • witnesses 44
      • worker failure 45
    • politics of 37, 40
      • blame game 37–38
      • conflicting interests 39, 40
      • legal action 39
      • looking good 38
      • measures of safe workplace 38
      • opening can of worms 37
      • safety records 38–39
      • shifting responsibility 39
      • stumbling block 37
    • purpose of 28
    • rule...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. About the Author
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Section I Introduction to Accident Investigation
  10. Section II Accident Investigation Methodology
  11. Section III Investigating and Analyzing the Event
  12. Section IV Remedial Measures to Prevent a Recurrence
  13. Section V Evaluating the Quality of Accident Investigation Reports
  14. Section VI Accident Scenarios
  15. Section VII Conclusion
  16. Index