Facilitating Incident Investigations: Root Causes, Data Collection and Chain of Custody
ASP written lesson, 9 min read. ASP Domain 2: Safety Programs and Concepts
Written with AI help from the rules it covers, then fact-checked against them. Study aid, not site-specific safety advice. The official rule controls.
What you'll learn
- Explain why OSHA recommends investigating close calls as well as injuries
- List the main types of evidence and how to collect each
- Describe what a chain-of-custody record must show
- Distinguish the direct cause, contributing factors and root causes
- Apply the OSHA severe-injury reporting deadlines
What this lesson covers
This lesson teaches how a safety professional runs an incident investigation: securing the scene, collecting people, position, parts and paper evidence, keeping a chain of custody, finding root causes and contributing factors, and meeting OSHA's 8-hour and 24-hour reporting clocks for high-risk incidents.
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