Accident Investigation
Running head: Casual Factors project 1
Casual Factors project 11
Casual Factors Project
Wesley D. Herron
Waldorf University
Identifying Causal Factors and Corrective Actions
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Industrial accidents |
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Human factors |
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· Evaluate procedures for inspecting, reporting, maintaining, repairing, replacing, or recalling defective equipment, tools, and material used. |
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· Non-compliance · Unskilled employees · Stress and depression · Employee failure to communicate |
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· Perform job safety analysis. · Improve employee ability to recognize existing or potentially hazardous conditions. · Provide test equipment, as required, to detect hazards. Evaluate any change or modification of equipment, tool, and material.
· Train employees in reporting procedures. · Stress individual acceptance of responsibility. · Evaluate job procedures for hazard avoidance. · Evaluate supervisory responsibility. · Improve supervisor and employee communications. · Take action to remove or minimize the hazard. |
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· Evaluate human factors engineering principles. · Alter equipment and tools and material to make it more compatible with human capability and limitations. · Evaluate purchasing procedures and specs. · Check out new equipment and job procedures involving new equipment before putting into service. · Encourage employees to report potentially hazardous conditions created by equipment design. |
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· Evaluate criteria in codes, standards, specifications, and regulations. · Establish new criteria as required. |
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Therefore, various steps to be considered in the implementation of an effective disaster recovery planning, as well as data backup, will be evaluated through action, observation and reflection plans.
Action
The action plan will involve a review of various strategies, which can be used in implementing the disaster recovery plan, strategies for an efficient data backup, the benefits of these policies as well as their limitations.
Strategies for an effective Disaster recovery plan
It is critical to define the context for the disaster recovery planning effort will use in executing the process. Most often, the emergency response requires an agency to have a disaster management team that is a task force that will enhance the decision-making process (Alhazmi & Malaiya, 2012).
. Therefore, to be able to have effective strategies to ensure that a disaster recovery plan is effectively implemented the organization needs to have a clear and comprehensive understanding of the threats and consequences of the catastrophe. After this, they are obligated to create an effective communication plan to effectively prevent, detect and correct the various adverse effects that were made during the catastrophe (Alhazmi & Malaiya, 2012).
Understanding the various threats and consequences
To be able to understand the risks and effects of disasters effectively it is important to perform a quality improvement evaluation in the scene where the tragedy occurred. Quality improvement refers to the application of a required approach in the assessment of performance as well as employing adequate efforts to ensure that the performance is enhanced (Brooks, Merryman, Juran, & Bedernjak, 2002).It includes constant and regular actions that result in measurable improvement in performance of the various activities in different areas such as health care and business.
The worker's safety risks can be overcome through integrating various measures such as improving work organization to reflect the demands of employees such as flexible work schedules, regulating the long working hours and management of overtime. Also, the psychological work demands should be effectively managed such as the pace of work. Also, other factors related to direct care practices that affect workers safety such as patient lifting and awkward postures should be addressed. Protective devices to ensure the security should also be introduced to avoid occupational exposures, violence, and needle sticks (Brooks, Merryman, Juran, & Bedernjak, 2002).
Different risks are identified using the following methods of risk identification. Observations include noticing the previous risks that have previously occurred and the current ones as well as reporting them to the disaster management team. Interviewing which will be done through the use of research tools such as recordings and questionnaires. Using organizational development instruments such as the (SWOT) analysis, which is the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. PESTLE, another organizational tool can be used that means the political, sociological, technological, environmental, ecological and legal factors (Brooks, Merryman, Juran, & Bedernjak, 2002).Diagramming can also be utilized for the physical description of the risk factors.
Reflection
Distinguishing between business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning is important. While business recovery plans are concerned on defining assets, risks, as well as scenarios that can severely affect the organization and make effective decisions to control the threats, disaster recovery planning is concerned with constant and pre-planned actions that could respond to various emergency events. Thus, business continuity planning is about mitigating hazards, and disaster recovery planning is concerned with response measures to be taken after the occurrence of accidents.
The communication plan can use the written option as the primary communication channel such as leaflets and flyers, notice boards and posters, agreements and contracts, distribution cards, short message services, newspapers and social media. This is because this method appeals to most audience and stakeholders of the company.
The disaster-planning manager in response to a calamity will involve working with the disaster management team along with other stakeholders, which will include heads of departments, the employees, and various internal and external stakeholders. The process will involve identifying, analyzing, and managing risks effectively to ensure there is a minimum impact in the event it occurs (Kirvan, 2011). The scope will also include identifying risks through evaluating the various environmental factors company management plan and the organizational culture as well as the cost, quality, and schedule. Particular attention will be paid to various constraints, assumptions, resource plan cost, and effort approximate and other main documents.
Additionally, Particular strategies should be intended to deal with the risks that an enterprise experiences are taking a long-term plan and perception in developing the capacity to eradicate threats by preventing, avoiding, Mitigating responding and recovering from disasters. The specific strategies are used to design and develop several enterprises in the capacity sustainable processes.
Finally, a calamity can be artificial, environmental, or even natural. Therefore, a disaster recovery plan is developed to make sure that the critical business operations continue in the event of an accident. The program offers practical solutions, which can be applied in recovering the essential business functions within their expected period using critical records that may be stored offsite. However, this plan is among the numerous programs that offer several procedures that are used in handling situations during emergencies. The methods can be used independently, but they can be effective when used simultaneously as they are designed to support each other.
References
Alhazmi, O. H., & Malaiya, Y. K. (2012). Evaluating disaster recovery plans using the cloud. Retrieved from http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/p/DisasterRecovery2013.pdf
Brooks, C., Merryman, J., Juran, I., & Bedernjak, M. (2002). ibm.com /redbooks Disaster Recovery Strategies with Tivoli Storage Management. International Technical Support Organization. Retrieved from ftp://skolai.daba.lv/pub/Arhivatori/adsm_clients/SG246844/sg246844_disaster_recovery.pdf
Dart, T. (2014). New Orleans: houses can be rebuilt, but can trust in central government? Retrieved from HTTP:// https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jan/27/new-orleans-houses-rebuilt-trust-government-hurricane-katrina
Kirvan, P. (2011). How to write a disaster recovery plan and define disaster recovery strategies. Retrieved from http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/How-to-write-a-disaster-recovery-plan-and-define-disaster-recovery-strategies
Mohamed, H. A. R. (2014). A proposed model for IT disaster recovery plan. International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science, 6(4), 57–67. doi:10.5815/ijmecs.2014.04.08