IFSTA: Safety Investigations (Ch 32)

Question 1

Everybody Goes Home: 6 initiatives C/O can address

Answer 1

• Create, implement, support change that emphasizes safety, health, and wellness
• Adhere to/support personal accountability for choices that result in healthy lifestyle/work environment
• Apply the risk management model to safety, health, and wellness
• Empower suborinztes to stop unsafe behaviors and practices, provide positive role model
• Thoroughly investigate all employee fatilities, injuries, and accidents
• Insist on safe design, maintenance, and operation of all apparatus and equipment

Question 2

Risk management plan: development steps

Answer 2

1. Risk identification
2. Risk evaluation (frequency and severity)
3. Risk control
   
   1. Eliminate/avoid when possible
   2. Take steps to control
4. Risk-management monitoring and follow up

Question 3

Areas covered by risk control plan

Answer 3

• Administration
• Facilities
• Training
• Vehicle operations
• Protective clothing and equipment
• Emergency incident operations
• Non-emergency incident operations
• Other related activities

Question 4

Accident: definition

Answer 4

Unplanned, uncontrolled event resulting from unsafe act and/or unsafe occupational conditions, either of which may result in injury, dath, or property damage.

Question 5

Accident causes

Answer 5

• Adverse environmental conditions
  
  • weather
  • terrain
  • situation
• Equipment/material malfunction
• Human error
  
  • ignorance
  • carelessnesss
  • mental/emotional/physical difficulties

Question 6

Accident investigations: identify

Answer 6

• Behavior or condition that caused (root cause)
• Previously unrecognized hazards
• Apparatus/equipment defects or design flaws
• Additional training needs
• Improvements needed in safety policies
• Facts that could have legal effect on case
• Trends

Question 7

Human factors that contribute to accidents (3)

Answer 7

• Improper attitude
  
  • willful disregard, recklessness, irresponsibility, laziness, etc.
• Lack of knowledge or skill
• Pysically unsuited

Question 8

Investigations: collecting information

Answer 8

General Information

• Date, time, type of incident, location, witness accounts

Employee characteristics

• Name, unit, age, gender, rank, PPE

Environmental Information

• Weather, temp, day/night, noise, visibility, terrain

Apparatus/equipment information

• Type, age, condition, location, maintenance

Narrative description of the incident

Question 9

Accident reports: questions during analysis

Answer 9

• Who was involved? first or repeat, abilities = to task?
• What was involved? equipment = to task? Using correct procedure?
• What were circumstances? Environment, drug/alcohol, emergency or routine, training = to task?
• What was the root cause? Equipment failure, procedures need to be changed, new training?