How To Perform High Quality Safety Investigations

Why Should You Attend:

In the event of an accident or the near miss of an accident in the workplace, employers are required to perform a thorough, objective, professional investigation. The investigation’s purpose is to discover the reasons for the accident or near miss occurrence, and then rectify the situation so a further accident is avoidable or becomes less likely.

The presence of solid safety investigation protocols also lessens the probably of an accident occurring as unsafe conditions can be discovered before an accident can occur.

This webinar will focus on the OSHA compliant policies, procedures and protocols you must have in place to perform a thorough, objective and professional investigation in the event of an accident or the near miss of an accident in the workplace.

Learning Objectives:

Attendees will learn how to perform a thorough and defensible safety investigation.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

1. Why you are required to do investigations in accidents and near miss situations.
2. The interplay between OHSA and Workers Compensation.
3. How safety investigations differ from other types of HR related investigations.
4. Policies, procedures and protocols to have in place.
5. Indicators of professional Investigations.
6. How to take a complaint.
7. What to do if an accident happens.
8. How to interview witnesses.
1. What to do when people won't cooperate.
9. Report writing tips.

Who Will Benefit:

This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all personnel in:

• Safety management
• Those who have to oversee others investigations such as Plant Managers and HR
• HR Managers who have to perform safety investigations
• The HR person in the one person HR office

Instructor Profile:

Teri Morning, MBA, MS, SPHR, SPHR-CA is the President of her own HR Consulting firm She has over 15 years human resource and training experience in a variety of professional fields, including retail, distribution, architectural, engineering, consulting, manufacturing (union), public sector and both profit and non-profit company structures. She has consulted with employers on their problems and trained managers and employees for over 10 years, meeting and working with employees from all types of businesses. In addition to a MBA, Teri has a Master’s degree in Human Resource Development with a specialization in Conflict Management. She was certified by the State of Indiana in mediation skills, is qualified as a Myers-Briggs practitioner and holds the dual SHRM certification of a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and Senior Professional in Human Resources – California (SPHR-CA).

Topic Background:

When an accident happens, some degree of confusion generally follows. If the person tasked to perform the root cause investigation does not know how to perform such an investigation, then a good fact finding that lessens the likely of such an accident occurring again becomes much less likely.

An employer has compliance obligations that its investigations are thorough, objective, and professional and an honest attempt to fulfill its obligations to employees to provide a safe place to work. Without a trained investigator performing investigations, such a quality investigation becomes much less likely.

A sloppy investigation is hard to defend compliance wise and may even incur greater liability upon an employer. Even worse, such actions, or lack of actions, sends a message to employees that their employer doesn’t take their safety seriously.

Yet, most employers care greatly for providing a safe place to work for their employees and sincerely want to discover and rectify unsafe conditions before an accident happens. Without good fact finding processes to uncover unsafe working conditions, repeated accidents are the only way unsafe working conditions will be discovered.

Even one person working unsafely can pose a hazard to many coworkers. Good safety accident investigation procedures can heighten safety awareness on a daily basis and cause safety to be in the front of everyone’s minds, every day.

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