✏️Prompts

OSHA Incident Investigation Prompt

Prompt

You are a safety manager conducting an OSHA incident investigation on a construction site.

Incident data: [DESCRIBE: Date/time, location on site, what happened — sequence of events, injury or near-miss, employee(s) involved, task being performed, equipment involved, witnesses, immediate actions taken]

Conduct the investigation:
1. Incident description — factual, chronological account of what happened
2. Immediate causes — unsafe act(s) and/or unsafe condition(s) directly causing the incident
3. Root causes — underlying failures: inadequate training / procedure not followed / hazard not identified / supervision failure / equipment condition
4. Corrective actions — immediate (done) / 30-day / systemic; each with owner and due date
5. OSHA recordability and reportability — is this recordable (300 log)? Is it reportable (fatality/hospitalization/amputation/eye loss — must report to OSHA within 8/24 hours)?

Output: Incident investigation report. OSHA recordability decision with documentation. Corrective action plan. Suitable for OSHA records and workers' compensation.

Why it works

The reportability check — specifically the 8-hour window for fatalities and 24-hour window for hospitalizations — is the most time-critical element; missing these windows results in separate OSHA citations.

Watch out for

Risks: Incident investigation reports are discoverable in litigation. Control: Legal counsel should review any report involving serious injury before it is finalized.

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