The influence of accident manuals on the effectiveness of accident investigations–An analysis of accident management documents of Ghanaian mines

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Title

The influence of accident manuals on the effectiveness of accident investigations–An analysis of accident management documents of Ghanaian mines

Creator

Eric Stemn, Theophilus Joe-Asare

Description

Accident investigations are mostly driven by policies and procedures laid down in an organisation’s incident management document. Such document determines the objective, scope, direction and focus of the investigation, and therefore influence the effectiveness of the investigation. This research sought to examine accident management documents and determine their effects on the effectiveness of investigation in Ghanaian mines. Twelve documents were collected from five large-scale Ghanaian mines and analysed using an integration of inductive and deductive approaches. The documents were analysed based on three major evaluation criteria, namely, the system of investigation, investigation process/activities and characteristics of the method investigation. Results showed that, when investigating an incident, all the mines focused on identifying the problem, with limited focus on proposing and implementing …

Publisher

Elsevier

Date

2021

Source

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=4--inMwAAAAJ&citation_for_view=4--inMwAAAAJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC

Language

English