Hi Bryan McWhorter here with Safeopedia and another safety moment. We're continuing with our series on safety management system simplified.
And we're down to our fourth component, which is incident investigations. Um, you know, when we look at those five components, those first three were actually preventative. We're looking to help prevent Incidents. So that Hazard Identification and Control, Training and Inspections are all about being proactive and driving safety. That fourth one, um, and something happened. We miss something, someone got hurt. There was property damage in near miss. Well, the silver lining is, you know, a lot of safety as identifying hazards and going after them. Well, here a hazard basically waved his hand at us. Something happened. So we want to put on our CSI hat and do everything we can to do a thorough investigation. We want to possibly look at it from a foresee perspective or a root cause analysis.
Check out all five of the Safety Management System Simplified; Hazard Identification and Control, Training, Inspections, Incident Investigations and Documentation and Reporting.
So the four Cs are concerned, cause, countermeasure and check. Concern, you know, we're concerned about someone else getting hurt, you know, stay what actually happened. Cause, your root cause analysis use five 'whys' use, um, fishbone diagrams and look at all the context. What was going on with that employee was there pressure, you know, one of the things that bothers me about behavior-based safety is often as kind of a free pass for the employer to blame the employee. You know, they knew the rule and they broke that rule. Well, why did they break that rule, again? Is there a more, an emphasis on performance and safety? It is always up to the employer to keep the employees safe. If they broke a rule that employer needs ask, why did they break that rule? It still needs to be on them. We need to support the employee.
Now, if you have a reckless employee that, you know, everything, you look at us, you know what, um, they just keep doing this. Well, that might be someone that, yeah, you need to maybe get out of that environment and have, have them be successful somewhere else. But again, we've got to do a thorough incident investigation and capture those things. What happened? What are we going to do to fix it? What was the root cause? And then having that control measure in place. Then what I would also suggest as part of that check, having a 30, 60, 90 day evaluation, where you go and look at that, uh, control measure and validate that, uh, it's in place and it's actually working. And there are a lot of great tools to help you with incident investigations. I believe Safeopedia has some. You can reach out to us, but a good incident investigation form will do all the heavy lifting for you. Again, as a check, sheet, you just follow and capture all the information, put your control, measure in place, do your root cause analysis and then go back and verify that the control measure is actually working. And then it's all about training, making sure people know about it and have it documented until next time, Bryan McWhorter Safeopedia, stay safe.
Check out all five of the Safety Management System Simplified; Hazard Identification and Control, Training, Inspections, Incident Investigations and Documentation and Reporting.