Mini Project Osha Part C
Mini Project Osha Part C
What are the procedures and activities need to be carried out in the event of an emergency/ injury
/ accident / incident has occurred?
The explanation should be supported with relevant technical diagrams/drawings/ Incident Form.
Information can be gathered by talking to everyone who was close by when the incident
event happened, especially those who saw what happened or know any informations
regarding to the incident that happens. Any clue on the incident that happened can be
obtained from those people who witness the occurrence happens in the incidents area.
During the gathering information activities, investigator shall collecting all the available
and relevant information including evidences, opinions, experiences, observations,
sketches, measurements, photographs, videographs, check sheets, permits to work,
and details on the environmental conditions at the workplace during that time. The
information recorded should be keep in note form initially, before completing it with a
formal report later. These notes should be kept at least until the investigation on the
incidents happens is complete.
2. Analysing the information
Analysing the information procedures involves examining all the facts by determining on
what happened and why it is happened. All the detailed information obtained earlier
should be assembled and examined to identify the relevant information and also identify
the information that missing. The procedure on information gathering and analysis are
actually should be carried out side by side. As the analysis progresses, the additional
information enquiry will be develop.
In order to obtains a good analysis, this procedure must be carried out in a systematic
way, so all the possible causes and consequences of the incidents event are fully
considered. There are many methods of analysing the information gathered in an
investigation of the incidents happens. One of the useful method in organising the
information gathered is Events and Casual Factor Analysis (ECFA).
There are several factors that needs to be considered while doing the investigations on the
incidents happens such as:
Violation factors
Job factors
Human factors
Organisational factors
Plant and equipment factors
This procedure should be conducted with employee, organizational safety and health
representatives or any safety officer appointed by the employer and other experts or
specialists, as appropriate seen by the employer. This team approach can often be highly
productive in enabling all the relevant casual factors that cause the incidents.