I am currently under investigation for making a mistake at work trying to do the right thing to prevent the company incurring financial penalties.

In a panic and fearing repercussions i was dishonest and stated i used an access point that I didn’t following the realisation that the access point we used had become prohibited which wasn’t realised by any of the team at the time until travelling back to the yard.

We all agreed on a ‘story’ as we were all concerned for our jobs but when the interviews came I was given no indication by the team that they were changing their stories and I ended up carrying the story on in the investigation.

Now I am facing charges of misleading an investigation and that I had ‘made’ the team lie in their own written statements at the start of the investigation as I was the senior man on the day even though I wasn’t in charge of site safety.

There has been no formal notification of anything since the incident occurred on the 10th august which has seen me removed from my role but not suspended and again nothing formally explaining as to why.

During this time I have lacked sleep and my wife has stated she has seen a deterioration in my mental and physical well-being.

I am absolutely gutted and it’s the first incident I have had in my 19/20 year employment, I am petrified of losing my job and feel like I’m losing hope. Is there anyway I can keep my job as the investigation write up has heaped all blame on me I am devastated