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Incidents · UK duty guide
Investigation
Started while people still remember what happened.
On the file
The interviews, what failed, and the actions that follow.
Duty
HSWA 1974 and MHSWR 1999
Where it is used
Started the same day, on the job.
What the duty covers
- Interviews, the immediate cause, and the underlying one.
- What failed: the control, the method, or the supervision.
- Actions go back onto the record, with owners, before the site moves on.
On the file
- The interviews
- The immediate cause
- The underlying cause
- What failed: the control, the method, or the supervision
- Actions, with owners, before the site moves on
How this duty should sit
These notes describe how the duty can sit on a digital record. This page is a guide to a UK duty. It is not a screen in EHSync Safety.
- Started the same day. Not a pack assembled a month later.
- The actions land on the board the people already use.
The duty
The UK law we work to, by name.
HSWA 1974 and MHSWR 1999
You have to find out what went wrong, and stop it happening again. RIDDOR expects the facts.
Who uses it
The person asked to find out. The actions go to the people who already use the board.
Sits with
On the incident. The actions land on the same board.
What good looks like
Started while people still remember. Owned actions are on the record before the site moves on.