Lessons learned in absenteeism for understanding workplace accidents
Lessons learned in absenteeism for understanding workplace accidents: An update that allows recording absenteeism in a company, differentiating its causes and providing measures based on the lessons learned.
From an occupational risk prevention perspective, lessons learned are fundamental to improving workplace safety and preventing future incidents. These lessons focus on risk prevention and identifying measures that can prevent similar accidents in the future. How do we arrive at these lessons? The answer lies in taking actions such as: This logic connects with accident investigation, which transforms each incident into a learning opportunity.
- Root cause analysis is carried out by conducting a thorough investigation of the accident to identify the fundamental causes that triggered it.
- Evaluation of protocols and procedures extracted from the review of existing safety protocols and procedures to determine if they are adequate.
- Training and education that allows us to find out if the workers involved in the accident received adequate safety training.
- Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) that helps to verify if personal protective equipment was used properly and if the necessary items were provided.
- Corrective and preventive measures that lead to the implementation of immediate corrective measures to prevent the same accident from happening again and other long-term preventive actions to reduce the probability of similar incidents.
- Communication and awareness that helps ensure all workers are informed about the accident and the lessons learned from it.
- Employee participation to involve them in the process of identifying safety risks and solutions.
- Monitoring and follow-up, allowing the establishment of a monitoring and follow-up system to evaluate the effectiveness of the measures implemented.
Lessons learned in absenteeism for understanding workplace accidents
By applying these lessons learned, organizations can improve their approach to preventing workplace incidents and accidents, ensuring a safer and healthier work environment for their employees. This also has a direct impact on absenteeism within an organization. It forms part of broader strategies for workplace accident prevention.
From an occupational health and safety perspective, absenteeism refers to the situation in which workers are absent from their workplace regularly or for extended periods due to work-related health problems… or not. Furthermore, it can be considered an indicator of occupational health and safety in a company. Its causes can be:
- Occupational hazards.
- Workloads.
- Work environment.
- Health and well-being.
- Work-life balance.
To understand absenteeism in an organization, it’s crucial to know the causes of absences. Therefore, the updated ‘Absenteeism’ module in Sabentis includes several new features. In many cases, these causes relate to the impact of human error in workplace accidents.
What does the update offer and how does it work?
It allows you to record absenteeism within a company and its reasons, such as:
- Accident.
- Occupational diseases.
- Common contingencies.
- Incapacity periods.
- Administrative absences and leave.
- Incidents.
- Statistics.
Delving deeper into the ease of use of the module, it is interesting to note that, for example, the ” Work Accidents ” functionality allows you to view a list of those that have occurred in the company.
This list is made up of different tabs:
- Accident details: This form defines the accident information and describes what happened. Its various sections help to contextualize the events. This form is adapted to the specific needs of each country’s system to facilitate reporting to the appropriate authority.
- Incapacity periods: a list of incapacity periods and extensions resulting from the accident.
- Accident investigation: gathers information related to the accident investigation and allows uploading external files or files that are not already on the platform.
- Events and causes: This includes a list of events and causes that led to the accident. It is generated using a fault tree analysis.
- Action plan: This allows you to create the measures associated with the accident. These can be corrective or preventive.
- Lessons learned: This section helps incorporate the lessons and knowledge gained from the investigation and analysis of an accident or incident. In this tab, you can identify areas for improvement in safety and prevention practices and prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. It also allows you to upload external evidence related to the investigation and analysis of an accident.
- Documents: This is a tab where you can upload or view documentation related to the accident.
