To determine the cause and use the information to prevent future occurrence

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Why should accidents and incidents be investigated?

To showcase company commitment and positive attitude to health and safety

To create a corporate cover-up for accidents

What is one legal reason for investigating accidents and incidents?

To manipulate the company's financial reports

To help in the event of an insurance claim

What is one financial reason for investigating accidents and incidents?

How and why an accident/incident happened and weaknesses in production systems

What the employees plan for their weekends

What can be discovered through a thorough investigation of an accident?

Highlighting weaknesses in existing risk control measures and avoiding business losses

What benefits can be gained from investigating accidents and incidents?

A situation where an accident could have occurred but didn't

A minor accident that caused only minimal damage

What is a 'near miss' in the context of workplace accidents?

To have a chance to update safety procedures and prevent further incidents

What is the importance of investigating dangerous occurrences?

When there's a disagreement between employees

Events that could have led to serious harm

What is considered a 'dangerous occurrence' in the workplace?

Injury, significant injury, dangerous occurrence, damage or near miss

What are examples of outcomes resulting from an unplanned event?

Physical damage or harm suffered by a person

What is the definition of an outcome-injury?

The flange connection bolts were checked regularly

The flange connection bolts did not have the required torque tightness

The flange connection bolts were too tight

What caused the pressure build up in the pipeline?

It results in major injury to an employee

It should be reported to determine cause and prevent recurrence

It should be ignored as no injury was caused

Who needs to have information and training regarding accident investigation?

Reflect a blame culture and use of technical jargon

Make the interviewee feel intimidated and uncomfortable

Avoiding a blame culture, encouraging open communication, and ensuring comprehension

What principles should effective interview techniques post-accident follow?

Use of Personal Protective Equipment first, followed by administrative controls and engineering controls

Elimination of risk, substitution of risk, application of engineering controls, administrative controls, and finally use of Personal Protective Equipment

Substitution of risk, use of Personal Protective Equipment, application of engineering controls

What is the identified hierarchy of risk control?

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic objectives with set Timescale (SMART)

Unrealistic and general objectives without any set timeframe

What should the action plan post-accident investigation have?

Human error, mechanical fault, and environmental conditions

Immediate causes, underlying causes, and root causes

Immediate causes, accidental causes, and root causes

What are the three basic types of incident causes?

What could immediate causes of incidents generally be?

Which of these is not typically part of the information gathered after an incident?

What should an analysis of the information collected after an incident be?

What are the underlying causes of an incident typically?

Management, planning, or organizational failings

What are the root causes of an incident typically?

Who was not supposed to be present in the area where the accident happened?

A leak on the flange due to loosened bolts

What caused the steam to escape at the accident scene?

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