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What is the impact of a fatal injury on the safety officer employed with a organisation?
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Posted By ARUN
What is the impact of a fatal injury on the safety officer employed with a organisation?
How employer reacts with a fatal injury and subsequent impact on working safety professional?
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Posted By Bob Shillabeer
Speaking from experience I believe this will make the role of the safety officer much more important. Don't worry about being sacked or anything as following such a serious accident there will be a big workload to investigate the accident, identify the underlying causes and to develop meaningful ways to prevent it happening again. Having said that I am assuming that the safety manager was not directly involved in the accident or had anything to do with the system of work being used at the time of the accident. If he was then he needs to check that he has done everything reasonably practicable to have prevented the accident. After an accident that is serious enough to raise alarm bells there needs to be a deep and detailed investigation internally to the company as well as the investigation by the safety authority to ensure the improvement of the system of working.
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Posted By Coshh Assessor
I agree. The safety officer is expected to investigate the incident and help in making sure that nothing like it will ever happen again. More interest and resources for safety suddenly appear.
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Posted By Raymond Rapp
Initially the police and regulators will be involved and this investigation would cause a significant disruption to the business. It will also test the robustness of the company's polices and procedures for dealing with a fatality at work and the subsequent investigation and interview processes.
Depending on the aforementioned investigation and whether any Enforcement Notices are served (prosecution will happen much later) will dictate what internal investigations are completed and where the buck stops. The rest is purely a matter of speculation.
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Posted By Jay Joshi
The investigations by enforcement bodies and internal investigations could take up considerable resources in context of time & effort that may have a domino effect on other activities.
It also depends upon the findings of the investigations what went wrong and if relevant, who was responsible for any lapses/gaps. In most cases, Safety personnel are in advisory capacity with operations/production/site managers having responsibility for implementing the controls. Therefore, it is less likely that safety personnel would be found responsible.
Depending upon the country where the fatality occurred, and the statutory protection the health and safety law of that country affords to a safety officer/advisor, the safety officer may or may not be apportioned blame --but all this is dependent upon the detailed investigation findings.
Last, but not least, any fatality may have a psychological impact on other employees, including a safety officer.
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Posted By Neil R
Quickest way to ensure safety standards are met and safety advisors get a keen, listening audience is to have a serious accident.
Sad but true, i spend hours and hours trying to get my message across, telling people what could happen and so on, do people listen? rarely, however if a serious incident occurred they would do.
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