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Incident Investigation Format

An incident investigation form was completed to document an incident at a workplace. The form collected details about the incident such as the name of the person involved, date, location, and investigation team. It identified the task being performed and what happened. Contributing factors were considered including environmental conditions, equipment issues, work systems problems, and human factors. Corrective actions were identified to address each contributing factor, assigned to people, and completion dates set to prevent future incidents. An investigation process guide outlines steps to thoroughly investigate incidents by establishing facts, gathering background information, analyzing contributing factors, determining root causes, and taking corrective actions.

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Incident Investigation Format

An incident investigation form was completed to document an incident at a workplace. The form collected details about the incident such as the name of the person involved, date, location, and investigation team. It identified the task being performed and what happened. Contributing factors were considered including environmental conditions, equipment issues, work systems problems, and human factors. Corrective actions were identified to address each contributing factor, assigned to people, and completion dates set to prevent future incidents. An investigation process guide outlines steps to thoroughly investigate incidents by establishing facts, gathering background information, analyzing contributing factors, determining root causes, and taking corrective actions.

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Incident investigation form

Incident details
Name of person involved in the incident: Date of incident:

Location of incident:
Incident investigation team:

What task was being performed at the time of the incident?

What happened? (e.g. ‘employee tripped over box’ or ‘forklift hit wall’)

What factors contributed to the incident?


Environment: Equipment/materials:
 Noise  Layout / design  Wrong equipment for the job  Equipment failure
 Material / equipment too heavy /
 Lighting  Dust / fume  Inadequate maintenance
awkward
 Vibration  Slip / trip hazard  Inadequate guarding  Inadequate training provided

 Damaged / unstable floor  Other  Other

Work systems: People:


 No / inadequate risk assessment  Procedure not followed / no
 Hazard not identified  Drugs / alcohol
conducted procedure exists
 No / inadequate safe work  No / inadequate controls
 Fatigue  Time / production pressures
procedure implemented
 Hazard not reported  Inadequate training / supervision  Change of routine  Distraction / personal issues / stress

 Other  Lack of communication  Other

Corrective actions:
Contributing factor What are we going to do
Who When Completion date
(from above list) to fix the problem?

Issue fixed?
Name Signature Date
Person involved in incident:

Manager:
Incident investigation process guide

1. Establish the facts of the incident, including:


- What happened?
- When and where did it happen?
- What task was being done?
- Who was involved?
- Were there any witnesses?

2. Gather all necessary background information, for example:


- maintenance records
- safe work procedures
- instructions manuals
- training records.

3. Consider all the potential contributing factors:


- Environment: Did environmental conditions (e.g. light, noise, floor surfaces) contribute to
the incident?
- Equipment /materials: Did anything about the equipment, materials, tools etc (e.g.
equipment failures, missing guards) contribute to the incident?
- Work systems: Was there something about the system that contributed (e.g. hazard not
identified, known hazard not addressed)?
- People: Was there something the workers, supervisors or contractors did that contributed to
the incident (e.g. poor communication, being tired or rushing to finish on time)?

4. Determine the primary cause/s of the incident, that is, those which if they hadn’t occurred then
the incident wouldn’t have occurred. Ask yourself “Would the incident have happened if….?”

5. Identify the root cause / system failures that underlie the primary cause/s and contributing
factors.
One simple technique for identifying the root cause is the ‘Five Whys’. This technique involves
asking yourself ‘Why did this happen?’ and continuing to ask ‘Why’ for each response until you
reach a conclusion that does not generate another ‘why’ and the underlying cause becomes
apparent.

6. The final and most import step in any investigation is to take action to fix all the factors that
contributed to the incident, starting with the primary cause/s and working through each of the
contributing and underlying causes.

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