Implement Inspections and Identify Other Sources of Information
Improve your ability to identify workplace hazards:
- Go beyond easy-to-find sources of hazard information.
- Identify the hazard identification processes in use now.
- Complete an activity to identify new hazard identification processes and needed improvements.
Improve Your Incident Investigation Process
Update and improve your incident investigation process:
- Identify and act on opportunities to improve the incident investigation process.
- Challenge common assumption about how and why incidents happen.
- Complete a self-assessment survey activity with workers on why incidents happen.
Analyze Near Misses
Learn from experiences with close calls and near misses:
- Encourage workers to report all close calls.
- Analyze close calls and near misses that occur.
- Use insights from this analysis to improve the way you manage safety and health risks.
Anticipate Hazards Associated with Nonroutine Situations
Understand the hazards of rare and nonroutine jobs and situations:
- Use in depth processes to identify nonroutine tasks that pose risks to workers.
- Complete an activity to identify nonroutine tasks through toolbox talks.