Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine the objectives
- Access, interpret and apply safety and health investigation procedures and documentation and ensure the work activity is compliant
- Determine the scope of the investigation. Ensure pre- and post-incident timeframe is consistent with all requirements
- Determine the proposed investigation objectives from an analysis of the available information and factors
- Test the proposed objectives and clarify the scope of the investigation
- Ensure the final objectives and scope of the investigation will be achievable within available resources and authority constraints
- Gather information
- Maintain site security and integrity of evidence in accordance with all requirements
- Plan and prepare for the systematic collection of information
- Schedule information collection and completion to ensure minimum backtracking or repeat actions
- Ensure methods used to collect and examine information, including interviewing and recording, meet all requirements
- Collect, test and organise all appropriate information
- Evaluate information
- Assess and evaluate information for validity and reliability and organise as evidence to aid decision making
- Undertake further research where information is unclear or inadequate, and rectify
- Analyse the evidence to determine the cause(s) of the incident
- Draw conclusion(s) based on agreed standard
- Ensure the findings address the established factual objectives
- Identify courses of action
- Frame options for the courses of action
- Ensure options are provided in a form which meets the audience requirements, can be easily understood and enables the selection of the most appropriate course of action
- Ensure the course of action selected will resolve the issues and reduce the probability of recurrence
- Ensure the selected course of action can be implemented in accordance with all requirements
- Prepare and present investigation reports
- Prepare investigation reports
- Present written and graphical reports clearly and concisely in a format which can be readily understood
- Present the reports to the required audience
- Review the investigation process and pass recommendations for process changes and improvements to the appropriate authority