When fatalities and/or multiple injuries occur, compliance and analysis situations take on a life of their own. Third party examiners, compliance officers, media and public scrutiny become critical issues which must be managed by the organization. When such loss events occur, there are many sound reasons for bringing a DSI REASON Team aboard early.

Having DSI’s worldwide reputation and expertise associated with your root cause analysis project brings credibility and acceptance to your investigation activities. DSI coordinates your analysis, prepares and provides you with the highest level professional analysis reports, both to inform and counsel your management, and as a resource for your reports and documentation to outside organizations. Making DSI a member of your team provides a third-party expert witness resource, professional consulting services, and world class analysis capabilities.

The following is an example of how DSI and REASON might come into play in the protection of your organization when compliance or legal issues are involved. A major organization had just suffered an event in which a problem within a cryogenic process had resulted in one fatality and the severe burning of several employees. The organization immediately notified OSHA and DSI. In hours their management was discussing with OSHA Compliance Officers what had happened and the progress status of their root cause analysis in process. At the end of the day, DSI, working with the organization’s safety and operations staff, was able to show the OSHA Area Director and Compliance Officers exactly how the event had occurred, and able to demonstrate with a REASON model and analysis report that the tragedy was in no way an issue of negligence on the part of the organization. Instead, the organization through conducting the analysis had pinpointed an opportunity to go beyond the existing OSHA Standards in order to improve and maximize prevention and control. No citations were issued.

When you can show a judge and jury, third-party examiners and officials, compliance panels and review committees exactly how problems occurred, so that they can see and validate for themselves the accuracy and completeness of the data, organizations can manage and retain control of those crisis situations that without such capabilities can take on a life of their own.