According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a worker died every 96 minutes from a work-related injury in 2022, a 5.7 percent increase over the previous year. Worksite fatalities and incidents ...

A safety incident report usually identifies the precipitating event. It doesn’t identify the small failures that led to it. In many cases, those failures aren’t just three deep but far deeper. One way ...

One of the biggest changes in the 2020 FCPA Resource Guide, 2nd edition, is the addition of a new Hallmark, entitled, Investigation, Analysis, and Remediation of Misconduct, which reads in full: The ...

This is the final post in the Business Continuity Event Planning series. We close with a look at how to manage the process, how to improve response, recovery, and prevent recurrence of an event. In ...

The Joint Commission has determined the 10 most common causes of sentinel events reported in the first six months of 2013. An organization reporting a sentinel event submits a root cause analysis to ...

The 2023 ECCP re-emphasized the need for both performing a root cause analysis but equally importantly using it to remediate your compliance program. It stated, “a hallmark of a compliance program ...

As commercial vehicles add more complexity, searching for the root cause of component failures, as opposed to just swapping parts, may be the better long-term treatment. In the trucking industry, ...