Accident Witness Interview guideline
Generally, interview should be conduct by well experienced person to interact with witnesses of accident, questioner having any regulatory and factory acts knowledge will be considerable. Some basic method for conduct interview:
Speaker need to appoint for the listen and note important part of accident as discussion of crowd.
Arrange of a convenient time & location to interact with each witness of accident.
Interaction with witnesses of accident, present peoples of accident place, need to immediate interview of them.
Prepared diagram of the accident place, deploy people and condition, working status on drawing of each people including victim.
It is necessary to explain the purpose of the question to each workman before start interview, investigation of accident should be comfort to gives a response by workmen.
Speaker is most important side is listen the witness, listen the full stories what witness explain, be courteous & consider the each sides of the notices, try to make witness speak freely.
Take care during the interview, witness not to be disturb during the explanation, voice recorder is best for the taping the event.
Show the design prepared to easier for the witness to explain and remember chain of at time of accident.
Highlight each area / location which is considerable.
Listening is best instead argue with witness, be sincere during interview to radiance the environment of interview.
Put in record of the words that describe the situation, condition, working environment and possible root to identify accident causes, do not put the words witness mouth.
Take care during the questioning to witness should understand what you want to know and what your point to ask is.
Detailed information need to collect of each witness.
Show the report copy of his/ her statement, it is necessary to show what is going to reporting. Might still any confusion can take the time to correct.
All the recorded information, reporting records are need to review to clarify the information is recorded is reported.
It is very important to take the interview at accident location.
Assembling of the situation, work environment, possible root cause in logical order.
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- INCIDENT INVESTIGATION
- NEAR MISS REPORT
- TABLE TOP EXERCISE REPORT
- RISK ANALYSIS