Accident & Incident Investigation

Accidents happen, but getting to the root cause helps identify risks and prevent them happening again. In this course, we review the accident investigation process to illustrate the benefits of accident prevention and useful techniques for accident investigation.

It illustrates how to collect, analyse and communicate data, how to consider human factors and how to create strategies to ensure your organisation learns from safety failures.

Course Outline

Overview

This one-day workshop course is designed to help organisations to understand meet their moral and legal obligations to prevent accidents and learn from safety failures.

Targeted at anyone with responsibility for health and safety management, it covers a wide range of topics ranging from basic principles of accident investigation to how to collect, analyse and communicate data and how to apply your findings to new strategies to reduce the risk of further accidents.

Aims and Objectives

The aim of this course is to train individuals in the skills and knowledge they need to investigate accidents effectively and to allow organisations to meet their moral and legal responsibilities to investigate accidents effectively.

Duration

This is a one-day workshop course.

Prerequisites

There are no formal entry requirements for this course. However, learners are expected to have a good understanding of both spoken and written English.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for line managers, supervisors, safety representatives and anyone with responsibility for accident investigation or health and safety.

Contents

The course covers a wide range of topics, including:

• Principles of accident investigation

• Benefits of accident prevention

• Basic concepts of human factors

• Accident reporting and scope of investigation

• Accident investigation techniques

• Stages of accident investigation

• Practical exercises and case study

• Broad understanding of accident investigation

• How to collect, analyse and communicate data

• Robust understanding of RIDDOR

• Readily applicable accident investigation procedures

• Understanding of strategies to ensure the organisation learns from safety failure

• Principles of accident investigation

• Benefits of accident investigation

Course Benefits

This course will give individuals a robust understanding of accident reporting procedure and enable them to manage the aftermath of workplace accidents professionally and effectively.

For organisations, it will help them to meet their own moral and legal obligations and protect its workers from potential risks.

Certification

An OMS Certificate of Attendance will be issues on successful completion of the course, valid for 5 years.