LEARNING FROM PAST INCIDENTS

A lesson can be learned from almost anything that occurs to us in our lives. Workplace incidents that result in near misses, property loss, or injuries are no different.

Many companies spend a lot of time, money, and effort to collect information regarding these types of incidents in order to find the root cause and try to prevent a similar event from occurring again.

Learning from Incidents Outside Your Normal Scope of Work

Many safety shares or incident investigations that are put out by a company to be reviewed at the field level may not deal directly with what work is occurring for a certain number of employees. That being said, no matter what hazard caused the injury or what the injury was that resulted, lessons can be learned from that incident and applied elsewhere.

It is important to not put so much focus into the actual work task that caused the injury or what the injury was, but instead put more attention towards what applicable lessons can be applied to the work that you do.

Most investigation findings and recommendations to prevent a similar event from occurring hold a lot of valuable information that can be applied in many different ways to almost any job task being performed on a worksite.

Never take any incident at face value. Lessons can always be learned from each one.