SAFETY CONSULTING
Independent Accident Investigation You Can Defend At Inquiry
A CMIOSH-chartered investigator on site within 48 hours, guaranteed in writing. We lead the root-cause analysis, prepare your RIDDOR or Irish HSA statutory report, and close out a corrective action register that integrates straight into your next audit cycle.
What you get
A Defensible Investigation, Not a Desk-Review Memo
Every accident investigation is led by a CMIOSH-chartered advisor who is independent of your project team. The output stands up at regulator inquiry, in front of insurers, and inside your own board review.
Independent Root-Cause Analysis
A chartered investigator runs the site walkdown, evidence pack, witness interviews, and root-cause method (typically 5 Whys with a Bowtie or TapRooT overlay) under their own professional sign-off.
- CMIOSH-chartered, professionally indemnified
- No reporting line into the project being investigated
- Evidence pack chain-of-custody logged
RIDDOR and Irish HSA Statutory Reporting
We prepare and submit the regulatory report on your behalf, lined up against the windows set in RIDDOR 2013 and the Irish General Application Regulations, and we stay with the file through any follow-up correspondence.
- Specified injuries and dangerous occurrences
- Injuries that keep someone off work more than 7 days, reported within 10 days
- Insurer notification briefing on request
Corrective Action Register, Owned to Close-Out
A live register where every action has an owner, a target date, a verification method, and a direct link back to the root cause. The register integrates straight into your next site audit and your safety policy cycle.
- Specific to each project, never templated
- Chartered sign-off on close-out verification
- Plugs into the next audit visit by default
The investigation cadence
From First Call To Close-Out In Four Moves
A chartered investigator is mobilised within 48 hours of notification. The investigation runs as a managed engagement to close-out, not a one-off site visit and a report.
Mobilise within 48 hours
A CMIOSH-chartered investigator is briefed on the incident, the site, and the regulatory context. We then deploy them on site or on a structured remote brief within 48 hours of your first call. Mobilisation is guaranteed in writing.
Evidence, interviews, and documentation
We secure the site evidence pack with a logged chain of custody, interview frontline workers and supervisors, and pull the active RAMS, Method Statements, training records, and inspection reports for analysis.
Root-cause analysis and corrective actions
The chartered advisor runs the root-cause method, drafts the findings against UK HSE and Irish HSA guidance, and builds a corrective action register where every item is linked back to the root cause it addresses.
Statutory reporting and close-out review
We prepare and submit the RIDDOR or Irish HSA report on your behalf, brief your insurer on request, and hand over a register that integrates with your next audit visit and your safety policy cycle.
What 150+ Years of Chartered Experience Looks Like
Case story: design-flaw discovery
A SCADA Panel Replica That Caught a Sister-Site Incident Before It Happened
On an investigation in Northern Ireland, our chartered officer built a full-size replica of the SCADA control panel involved in the incident. Working through the panel in the lab, the officer identified a design flaw in the switchgear layout that had nothing to do with the operator on shift the day of the event.
The same panel design was in service at a sister site in Ireland. We escalated the finding into a corrective action that crossed both locations, and the design change was implemented before a second incident could occur. That is the difference between a desk-review memo and a chartered investigation owned to close-out.
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Cross-portfolio design change across both locations
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Switchgear layout flaw, not operator error
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Repeat events at the sister location after the fix
Related engagements
Where Investigation Sits In The Safety Stack
Investigation sits inside our wider Safety Consulting service. The corrective actions plug back into audits and policy work, so the same incident does not repeat.
Audits and Inspections
A gap-registered site safety audit that holds up at the next HSA or HSE inspection, in one chartered visit. Corrective actions from an investigation slot straight in.
Safety Policy Development
RAMS, Method Statements, and Safe Systems of Work authored by chartered advisors. Investigation findings inform the next revision of your safety policy and risk documentation.
Back to Safety Consulting
Return to the Safety Consulting hub to see all 5 chartered engagements, from CDM advisory through PSCS and PSDP advisory.
What clients say
Independent Oversight Tier-One Operators Trust
Operations and EHS leads at energy and utilities operators rate the chartered, independent oversight we bring to every investigation. These are their words, verbatim.
“Coyle Group offers a fresh pair of eyes: he will often spot the potential for hazard.”
“Gavin has supplied competent EHS personnel… we want to go further, making all our plants safer.”
“Gavin is always a phone call away and has always provided a professional and supportive service… on many occasions at very short notice and outside of business hours.”
Questions we hear after every incident
Accident Investigation Questions Answered
When should we call you in after an incident?
As early as you can. Site evidence degrades within hours of an event, witness recollection drifts within days, and statutory reporting clocks (UK RIDDOR, Irish HSA notifications) start immediately. We accept first-call notifications 24 hours a day and have a chartered investigator on site or on a structured remote brief within 48 hours, guaranteed in writing. Calling us in early protects the integrity of the root-cause analysis and gives you a defensible chain of custody for evidence and interviews.
How do RIDDOR and Irish HSA reporting timelines work?
Specified injuries, dangerous occurrences, and over-7-day absences must be reported to the UK HSE under RIDDOR 2013 within set windows (10 days for over-7-day injuries, immediately for fatalities and specified injuries). Equivalent obligations apply under Irish General Application Regulation reporting to the HSA. We prepare the statutory report on your behalf against the evidence we gather on site, line it up with your insurer notifications, and submit on the regulator portal. The same chartered advisor stays with the file through any follow-up correspondence.
How independent is the investigator from our project team?
Fully independent. Our investigator is engaged by the client organisation but reports findings without any reporting line into the operational team that managed the incident. The investigator is a CMIOSH-chartered professional and was not part of the project being investigated. This is the independence that the regulator, your insurer, and any subsequent inquiry expect to see in the file. We refuse engagements where the brief would compromise that independence.
Who owns the investigation report and the corrective actions?
You do, fully. The report, the evidence pack, the root-cause analysis, and the corrective action register are your property from the moment they are issued. All documentation is specific to each project and never pulled from a template library. We support the close-out of the corrective actions on a retained basis if you want continuity into the next audit cycle, but ownership stays with your organisation throughout.
What kind of corrective actions actually get implemented?
The corrective action register is written so each item has a named owner, a target date, a verification method, and a link back to the root cause it addresses. Typical actions include revised RAMS and Method Statements, updated training matrices, design or guarding changes, supervisor briefings, and amendments to the Construction Safety Plan or Preliminary Safety Plan. We feed the register straight into the next safety policy review and the next site audit, so the close-out is visible to the regulator and to your senior team.
CMIOSH · 48-hour mobilisation
Get a Chartered Investigator On Site
We scope the investigation on the first call. A CMIOSH-chartered investigator is on site or on a structured remote brief within 48 hours, guaranteed in writing.
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