Understanding, Predicting, and Preventing Recordable Incidents
Incidents: Preventable, but Predictable. What You Need to Know to Secure Your Workplace.
When a recordable incident occurs, your business needs to prepare to navigate the complex waters of facilitating a successful return-to-work plan from start to finish.
Proactive safety strategies prevent incidents from happening in the first place.
Here, we will explore proactive safety strategies that allow safety managers to understand, predict, and help prevent incidents.
Understanding Incidents: What they are, how they happen, and their impact.
Understanding “Incidents” vs. “Recordable Incidents”.
OSHA broadly understands incidents as “a safety or health event with unwanted consequences.”
Some injuries may not qualify as a recordable incident if treated promptly and properly on-site by qualified professionals. Whereas, if that same injured person went to the hospital, it could quickly become a recordable injury.
Routine safety audits address on-recordable incidents, but recordable incidents mean immediate investigation and site visits from OSHA.
It’s essential to have qualified safety and medical personnel on-site to mitigate the risk of recordable incidents. Pharma-Safe offers highly trained and certified safety and medical professionals, EMTs, or paramedics for your project to reduce recordable injuries.
When a recordable injury occurs, it requires an immediate investigation and site visits from OSHA to address the issue and to ensure compliance. Recordables can raise a company’s mod rate, which in turn raises its insurance premiums.
As they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In other words, the benefits of hiring Pharma-Safe Industrial Services to assist with your safety are well worth the costs it can save in injuries, accidents, and the lost time that follows.
Understanding how and when incidents happen is key.
Incidents can happen for many reasons. For example, staff may perform tasks in the same way it’s always been done, even if it’s not the most effective or safest method.
Having an experienced third-party consultant perform a safety audit helps assess your current procedures and offers an evaluation.
Outside safety consultants provide an objective analysis to ensure your policies and procedures are followed internally and adhere to industry compliance regulations. Learn more about the benefits of third-party HSE consultants for safety audits here.
The goal is to gather information about safety risks and then deliver a comprehensive corrective strategy.
Predicting: Tools for identifying hazards.
You may not be psychic, but with the proper tools and resources, you can reliably predict potential issues in the workplace that could be a hazard to your staff and the environment.
Predicting where or how an injury might occur is critical.
Sometimes it helps to have an outside pair of eyes take a fresh look at the safety programs, policies, and procedures in place to understand potential risks in the workplace.
On-site safety technicians or in-house HSE consultants should be specially trained and focused to address your unique industry and project needs.
Near-miss reporting systems are a great tool for predicting where injuries can occur.
Recording near-miss incidents is vital. By performing or assisting with an investigation into what almost happened, Safety managers can prevent injuries and recordables from occurring in the same way.
Available data on loss control trending is a wealth of useful information.
Taking this information and turning it into actionable items is an essential part of the review process.
Our team of qualified safety personnel can identify areas of the workplace that seem more prone to accidents, investigate why this is happening, and develop a corrective action strategy to eliminate the risk and prevent future recordables.
Preventing: Taking action to prevent harm.
Prevention is the last and probably most important step in making sure that your safety programs are effective in avoiding injuries from occurring in the first place.
Ensure proper utilization of programs designed to prevent accidents from taking place.
Pharma-Safe Industrial Services can employ safety environmental management programs, process safety management, spill prevention control, and countermeasures to help prevent a workplace disaster.
Thorough accident investigation reports can help prevent more injuries from occurring.
Like near misses, a thorough accident investigation identifies safety hazards to be corrected. Otherwise, they could cause another, potentially worse, accident.
Implement any and all suggestions for correcting outstanding issues uncovered during a safety audit.
Taking the recommended corrective actions following a safety inspection can help to prevent accidents from happening.
If an accident does occur, what can Pharma-Safe Industrial Services do to help?
Pharma-Safe’s team of highly trained and qualified safety and medical personnel can help to ensure any injured persons are properly taken care of from start to finish.
We offer turnkey case management services to assist with everything from the incident to return to work, which will help control costs and minimize downtime. Our Total Care solution is specifically designed to manage evacuation and repatriation.
The Total Care Process
Having the right medical provider and topside support is critical in reducing the chance of a recordable incident.
If an employee is injured, a medical professional will assess and provide life-saving care with the guidance of topside support as needed. The right doctor matters: expert opinion saves lives and costs.
The patient may be evacuated if the injury requires extensive treatment. Our extensive network of approved clinics and our guaranteed upfront payment program ensure that patients receive the highest quality care right away.
Then, after initial treatment is given after evacuation, Pharma-Safe handles repatriation to either the worksite or the employee’s home country. Total Care completes the process by creating a recovery plan through our Occupational and Clinical Medicine Programs.
Our comprehensive case management services, combined with our safety services, allow our team to assist through all aspects of a claim, ensuring your injured employee can return to work as soon as possible.
Learning from incidents and securing your work site.
After an accident occurs, safety professionals investigate, determine what went wrong, and plan corrective actions. Without the collaboration between health and safety professionals, companies risk repeat offenses.
Reduce your injury rate. Improve your safety plans. Become prepared with Pharma-Safe.
While many third-party safety consulting companies can only manage one aspect of your safety program, Pharma-Safe Industrial Services has the industry experience and the skilled safety and medical personnel to offer a wealth of safety and case management services.