Category
Incident Investigation
40 articles
Contractor Incident Handover: 9 Steps in 24 Hours
A practical 24-hour contractor incident handover guide for EHS managers who need evidence, role clarity, and corrective control without blame.
RCA Timeline: Build It in 45 Minutes
Build a 45-minute RCA timeline that separates facts, decisions, uncertainty, and evidence before the incident team starts cause analysis.
Photos vs Witness Statements vs Equipment Logs: Which Evidence Carries RCA
RCA quality improves when investigators stop asking one evidence source to prove everything and instead match photos, witness statements and equipment logs to the decision each source can support.
Incident Investigator in 30 Days: First RCA Plan
A 30-day role plan for new incident investigators who need to protect evidence, build timelines, test causal factors, and avoid shallow RCA closure.
How to Run a Field Reset After a Near Miss in 30 Minutes
A near miss needs a fast field reset that protects people, preserves evidence, tests controls, and decides whether work can restart safely.
Reverse Bow-Tie RCA: 8 Failures That Hide Barriers
Reverse Bow-Tie RCA helps EHS managers test failed barriers after incidents instead of closing reports around shallow causes and weak actions.
How 250+ Safety Projects Turned RCA Into Control Restoration
A case-study article on how incident investigation becomes useful when RCA produces restored controls, named owners, and field verification.
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.
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.
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.