Collect Evidence
The major injuries, illnesses and dangerous occurences required by RIDDOR give you a good idea of what constitutes "significant" risks. When investigating accidents and incidents, you are expected to try and allocate appropriate time to the tasks. This is done by concentrating on those situations where there may be significant risk.
In agriculture, we have seen that there are a wide range of hazards - physical, biological and chemical making it difficult to concentrate energies. However, by using what we discovered in LO1, it is clear that the areas requiring most attention are transport accidents, falls from highplaces, children, allergies and zoonotic infections. Which others would you add to this list?
Collect further information (what/when/record book/stats) from other employees and employers. Alos find out what recommendations the manufactruers may have made. It may also be useful to find out whether there have been previous near misses/accidents and whether there is any pattern to them. This may include or indicate time, place or persons.Who can collect what? Joint investigation?
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