Accident and Incident Investigation is an essential part of managing health and safety. Investigations ensure that the company will gain an understanding of how and why things went wrong and will assist in ensuring that future accidents are prevented. The information gathered will also help the company to defend any civil claims or prosecutions which may arise from the accident or incident.

It is important that the investigation looks at the sequence of events leading up to the accident or incident to see if any unsafe acts or conditions played a part in it and to determine whether it was a human or organisational factor which gave rise to the unsafe act or condition.

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