Sound Safety Solutions Come From Detailed Accident Investigations

Nearly all job site injuries and fatalities are preventable. According to John Brengosz, loss control consultant for R&R Insurance in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a good way to prevent workplace incidents is to determine the underlying causes and correct them. This requires a thorough incident investigation. “Ideally, we would want to prevent somebody from getting injured. But at the very least, we want to learn from an injury so it doesn’t happen again and again,” Brengosz says. Prepare a response strategy OSHA encourages organizations to investigate all incidents that result in injuries, plus close calls in which workers escape injury. Organizations are required to