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From Chemical Incident Recommendations to Actionable Safety Practices: A Pilot Coding Framework Applied to Three U.S. Chemical Safety Board Investigations Karim Hardy (25089908) Medicine Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified Cancer Science Policy two proposed consensus six addressed regulators recommended voluntary practices one binding requirement methodological pilot develops lab lake charles institutional action level hazard investigation board four voluntary practices explicit applicability condition safety issue categories actionable safety practices three institutional communication proposed verification evidence obligation status separately traceable coding framework framework supports cross derived practice explicit chemical incident recommendations chemical safety safety functions three u source evidence hinder cross derived practice translating u standards organizations standard revisions specific narratives regulatory components recommendation status policy actions original wording fifteen recommendations event scenario cuisine solutions control deficit automatically mandatory assess implementation aghorn operating 21 recommendations Chemical incident investigations offer lessons for prevention, but case-specific narratives can hinder cross-case retrieval and application. This methodological pilot develops a traceable coding framework for translating U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) recommendations into actionable safety practices while recording the obligation status separately. The framework was applied to 21 recommendations from three purposely selected investigations: Aghorn Operating, Bio-Lab Lake Charles, and Cuisine Solutions. Each recommendation was linked to its event scenario, control deficit, safety functions, safety issue categories, hierarchy or institutional action level, derived practice, and proposed verification evidence. Fifteen recommendations were company-directed, and six addressed regulators or standards organizations. Derived outputs comprised ten CSB-recommended voluntary practices, four voluntary practices with regulatory components, three institutional communication or policy actions, two proposed consensus-standard revisions, one proposed regulatory requirement, and one binding requirement with an explicit applicability condition. Original wording, recipient, recommendation status, and accepted alternative actions remain traceable, making the interpretation from the source evidence to derived practice explicit. Proposed verification evidence identifies what could be examined to assess implementation; it does not establish that a practice has been implemented. The framework supports cross-case retrieval and context-specific review without treating CSB recommendations as being automatically mandatory. 2026-09-22T00:00:00Z Dataset Dataset 10.1021/acs.chas.6c00086.s002 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/From_Chemical_Incident_Recommendations_to_Actionable_Safety_Practices_A_Pilot_Coding_Framework_Applied_to_Three_U_S_Chemical_Safety_Board_Investigations/33964859 CC BY-NC 4.0