Accident/ Incident Investigation

The aim of this course is to give delegates enough understanding of accident causation and root cause analysis to encourage them to become personally involved in incident investigation, and to question and challenge until they get to root causes

This course will require delegate participation in various practical Scenarios and classroom role play which will provide delegates with basic knowledge and understanding of the importance of Accident and incident Reporting and also provide them with various techniques for when investigating any Accidents at work.

Target Group

• This course is aimed at personnel within you organisation that are responsible for Reporting & Investigating Accidents and Incidents at work, each company must comply with HSE legislation and record all incidents regardless of how serious or minor these may be.

Prerequisites

• Not Applicable for this course

Examination

• On Successful completion delegates would have successfully completed a theoretical test, and have shown their ability to Investigate / Report Accident & Incidents at work whilst acting out various possible work place scenarios and reporting the outcome of their investigations

• On Successful Completion of this course delegates will be issued with an In House Training Providers Certificate

Course Contents

• The requirement for conducting investigation including the aims and objectives of investigation

• Incident investigation team set up and equipment that is needed to carry out thorough investigation

• Information Gathering - how to gather different sources of evidence including physical, human and documentary

• Analysis of the information gathered - Root Cause Analysis and Human Failings

• Recording findings and sharing Lesson Learnt

• Practical - Workplace Incident Scenario: Investigation Team to gather all evidence available and to ascertain the root cause of the incident, and record findings/ lesson learnt