Occupational Accident Investigation - Terms/Definitions
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This Tic-Tac-Toe game will review basic terms and definitions associated with Accident Investigations.
Topics of this game:
- The occurrence in a sequence of events that produces unintended injury, death or property damage.
- An occurrence in a sequence of events that had the potential to produce injury, death or property damage, but did not.
- Events or circumstances that produced the accident
- The follow-up actions taken to prevent recurrence of the accident.
- The purpose of an accident investigation is to ask questions, interview, analyze, probe and discover what happened.
- The primary goal of an accident investigation is to determine corrective actions so that future accidents are prevented.
- An accident is an opportunity to find and fix problems with the safety program.
- Accident investigations are also conducted to comply with regulatory (OSHA) requirements.
- A fatal injury will require a higher level of investigation to include an investigation team and notifying OSHA.
- All "near misses" must be investigated and reported to OSHA within 24 hours.
