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The Workplace Investigation Readiness Checklist

Seven phases. Forty-plus steps. The exact checklist a 10-year internal investigator uses to keep workplace investigations fair, thorough, and defensible from the first intake call through the final report.

  • Printable PDF, ready for casebook or clipboard
  • Intake, triage, plan, evidence, interviews, analysis, report
  • Weingarten / Garrity / Loudermill reminders in the interview phase
  • Reviewer attestation and 90-day retaliation monitoring included

What's inside

  1. 01Intake (first 24 hours) 5 steps
  2. 02Triage & conflict check 5 steps
  3. 03Investigation plan 5 steps
  4. 04Evidence preservation 4 steps
  5. 05Interviews 6 steps
  6. 06Analysis 4 steps
  7. 07Report & closeout 6 steps

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