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How to Preserve Incident Evidence in the First 24 Hours
A practical 24-hour incident evidence preservation guide for EHS managers who need to protect scenes, records, witnesses, and investigation quality.
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Incident Investigation
33 articles
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Farmington Mine Case: What 78 Deaths Still Teach
A narrative incident-investigation case on Farmington Mine, showing why fatal events demand evidence, systems thinking, and verified corrective action.
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Incident Review Board: 5 decisions that keep RCA from becoming paperwork
Build an incident review board that tests evidence, barriers, accountability, and corrective-action quality before RCA becomes paperwork after harm.
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Latent Failures Explained: 4 Conditions Behind Incidents
Latent failures are hidden organizational conditions that shape incident outcomes before the worker makes the last visible error during high-risk work.
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Repeat Incidents: 6 Blind Spots That Keep RCA Shallow
Repeat incidents show when RCA changed documents faster than field conditions, leaving the same exposure ready to return.
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Barrier Restoration After SIF: 9 Steps to Verify Controls
A practical F2 guide for EHS managers who need to restore failed barriers after a SIF, verify controls in the field, and close action plans with proof.
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Hindsight Bias Explained: Foresight vs Blame
Hindsight bias explained for EHS managers who need incident investigations that reconstruct real decisions instead of blaming workers.
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Causal Factors Explained: 4 Levels in RCA
Causal factors separate visible errors from deeper control weaknesses, helping EHS teams avoid shallow RCA and design stronger corrective actions.
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How to Test Corrective Action Effectiveness in 30 Days
A 30-day corrective action effectiveness review tests whether post-incident actions changed the risk, not only whether the file was closed.
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Barrier Analysis Explained: 5 Checks Before RCA
Barrier analysis helps investigators test failed controls before RCA turns into blame, weak retraining, or a tidy action plan that changes little.
