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Accident Investigations: Avoiding Common Mistakes

Accident Investigations: Avoiding Common Mistakes. Kim Nimmo Risk Services Consultant. Objectives. What is an accident? Recognize the occurrence of an accident/injury What to report and why? When to report an accident/injury? How to complete the report?

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Accident Investigations: Avoiding Common Mistakes

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  1. Accident Investigations:Avoiding Common Mistakes Kim Nimmo Risk Services Consultant

  2. Objectives • What is an accident? • Recognize the occurrence of an accident/injury • What to report and why? • When to report an accident/injury? • How to complete the report? • Documenting and preserving evidence • Where to find the report

  3. What is an Accident? • Unplanned event with negative outcome (personal injury or property damage) • Accidents are the result of people, equipment, materials or environment failing to perform as expected or required • All accidents have consequences or outcomes Nobody Knows Education Better

  4. What Should Be Reported • All injuries regardless of severity • Vehicular, structural or equipment damage • Procedural deficiencies • Potentially unsafe conditions • Potentially unsafe behaviors • Near-miss incidents

  5. Why: Regulatory Reporting Requirements

  6. When to Report • Immediately after incident • Witnesses memories fade • Evidence and clues are moved or lost • Finish initial investigation quickly • The incident will be reviewed months or years later.

  7. How to Report an Injury: Documenting and Preserving Evidence

  8. Documentation Just the facts!

  9. What You DON’T Want in Your Reports • Subjective conclusions or assumptions as to who is at fault • Opinions on how accident could have been avoided • Unsubstantiated evidence

  10. Critical Documentation: Be Specific • What happened and when? • Where did it happen? • Who was involved? • Who witnessed it? • Who responded? • How did it happen?

  11. CUA – First Report of Injury Form

  12. CUA – First Report of Injury Form

  13. Injuries / Damages • Physical signs of injury • Difficulty moving parts of body • Taken to hospital? • Treatment given and by whom • Evidence of property damage • Statements made relating to prior history

  14. Accident Details • Weather conditions • Location of each individual • Destination • Reason for being there • Familiarity with location • Type of surface • Foreign objects or substances

  15. When to Report • Immediately after incident • Witnesses memories fade • Evidence and clues are moved or lost • Finish initial investigation quickly • The incident will be reviewed months or years later.

  16. Objectives review • What is an accident? • Recognize the occurrence of an accident/injury • What to report and why? • When to report an accident/injury? • How to complete the report? • Documenting & preserving evidence • Where to find the report

  17. Q & A

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