Posted By Maureen Milne Can I ask your understanding /opinion on what is the expected behaviour in accident investigations. If third party equipment is involved in an accident (causing minor injury, but with a high potential) would you expect the equipment owners to isolate that equipment until the company investigating the accident had viewed it or would you expect the equipment owners to undertake there own investigation without informing the investigating company? Say the equipment was rented out and the injury was to the renting companies employee.

Posted By Darren J Fraser I wholeheartedly agree with Bob on this, a joint investigation IMHO would be the ideal situation. From the point of view of the company whose premises the accident occurred on, I would at the very least want to carryout an investigation to determine, whether the controls (if any) had been implemented as per the various risk assessments, method statements (provided they had been completed)had specified. Were the controls adequate, was the equipment being used by a competent, trained individual (would want to see copies of any training certificates etc), had any pre use checklists (if required) been completed, what impact did/could it have on employees etc, has it been recorded in the accident book, did the contractor record it also, did the company accident procedure work or are there areas for improvement. I am sure that others will have a different view point, these are just my own observations, as it would demonstrate to both your employees and the contractor company/employees that all accidents / incidents are treated exactly the same, and therefore the company does take H&S of all persons on its premises seriously.