Safety Training Program Highlights

About Accident Investigation

"Accidents will happen". We have all heard that statement before. Unfortunately, it can be true.

In spite of our best efforts, things occasionally do go wrong.

While many accidents seem to happen for "obvious" reasons, there may be things that contribute to an accident which are not always apparent.

That is why it is vital to conduct a thorough Accident Investigation whenever a workplace incident occurs. By following clear and precise steps, investigators can sometimes uncover these "underlying causes" of a mishap.

An Accident Investigation has two main goals.

One is to determine the cause of the accident. The other is to use this information to prevent similar accidents from happening in the future.

For these reasons it is important that anyone who can contribute to an Accident Investigation does everything possible to help the investigators.

Managers, supervisors and other employees can... and should... all play a part.

When someone gets seriously hurt... or is even killed... on the job, we grieve.

We want to know what caused the accident so whatever it was that went wrong can be corrected and that similar situations can be avoided in the future.

If just one person gets hurt in a workplace accident, it is one too many. But if other people are injured later under the same circumstances, that is an even bigger tragedy.

---

Accident Investigation