Investigations Incident Causation Not Just for Fatalities Objectives • Familiarize with incident causation • Apply root cause analysis Heinrich Domino Theory Management / Root Cause • Management Structure objectives organization operations Operational Error Manager behavior/Supervisor behavior Tactical Error unsafe acts unsafe conditions LCU Theory • Accident probability is situational • Overload taxes person’s capacity • Leads to accidents (or illness) • >300 → 79% in 2 yrs • >200 → 51% in 2 yrs
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SAFETY PROCEDURE – ACCIDENT/INCIDENT INVESTIGATION EFFECTIVE DATE: March 1‚ 2007 1. PURPOSE The purpose of this procedure is to identify the duties‚ roles and responsibilities of workplace parties so that an effective and immediate accident/incident investigation and reporting process is in place. This will include identifying all contributing factors of the accident/incidents and hazardous situations and making the necessary recommendations to prevent the accident/incident from recurring
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The Accident It was 8:45 pm‚ a typical Friday night and the phone kept ringing. My daughter Khadra answered at the same time that I was entering the living room‚ I asked her who it was‚ and she said‚ “It is Long Beach Memorial Hospital; they want to speak to Mr. or Mrs Azza”‚ I grabbed the phone‚ “Hello‚ yes this is Mrs. Azza‚” the lady on the phone responded‚” We need you to come to the hospital as soon as possible; your son was hit by a car”. I couldn’t speak‚ but I forced myself to ask the
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Assignment 2: Recording‚ Analysing and Using Human Resource Information (3RAI). Task1 This assignment is based around a retail organisation. This organisation is in the fashion sector‚ primarily selling ladies fashion (although it does have some lines for men and children). The organisation has 34 stores‚ primarily based in the Midlands and South of the UK. It tends to employ significant number of students during the holiday period (to help cover staff holidays) and it always employs a number of
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of the eye that is common sometimes. This syndrome can affect many people who can have very serious problem. There are many different backgrounds of the keratoconus such as history‚ what is keratoconus‚ causes of the diseases‚ symptoms‚ signs and diagnosis‚ and other treatments. Keratoconus was the first study by German oculist‚ Burchard Mauchart in a 1748‚ which he called staphyloma diaphnum. However‚ physician John Nottingham clearly described keratoconus as the cases of conical cornea and also
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street was crowded with buses‚ cars‚ vans‚ and motorcycles waiting to pick up students. They parked haphazardly along the street‚ making it very difficult for people to cross the street. In addition‚ other vehicles were speeding along‚ utterly disregarding the speed limit sign. I‚ like all the other students was waiting for my mother to pick me up. Somehow‚ I knew she would be late. I looked around‚ feeling bored. Everything looked normal until I saw a form one boy‚ itching to dash across
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2 major lab accidents: 1) Adam and Joey‚ best friends since kindergarten‚ were doing an experiment in engineering class. The boys launched a potato at the wrong rate of speed and distance and broke a school window when they were trying out their potato launcher that was made to be launched indoors inside the school lab. If Adam and Joey had listened carefully to the teachers instructions‚ they would have launched the potato to travel the correct distance and speed. Maria and Kathy‚ two girls who
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Reflection on a Significant Incident from Practice Introduction The intention of this written essay is to demonstrate an understanding of my views on the art and science of reflection and the issues surrounding reflective practice. It is based on a significant incident from my own area of clinical practice as a state registered paramedic employed by a large provincial Ambulance Service N.H.S. Trust within the U.K. There is a discussion appraising the concept of reflection both generally
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John Watson MT302 Organizational Behavior Unit Three: Case Incident 2 Whistle Blowers: Saints or Sinners 6/27/09 Whistle Blowers: Saints or Sinners 1. Do you believe that whistle-blowing is good for organizations and its members‚ or is it‚ as David Stetler believes‚ often a means to extort financial gains from companies? Is having strong ethics whether they are ethical or unethical practices makes it easier for a person to take action than for that person to process the making
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communicate to each other‚ to record safely‚ to enjoy games and more. The thing is we are in a modern days we should be knowledgeable to a technology were we can adapt to a different environment. Considering‚ that now people are conscious to spending a lot of time to process of their tasks and probably wanted to lessen the stress from what they encountered. Recording system which is the strategy in order to perform tasks of the teachers to do their job but suddenly‚ the way in recording grades of the
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