Incident Investigation

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to understand the principles of incident investigation.

Course Content

The course focuses on:

• Identifying cause and effects of incidents.
• Using and implementing safe working practices.
• Understanding investigation procedures and their use and appropriate reporting of investigation procedures.
• Analysing appropriate control and recovery action to prevent injury, harm or re-occurrence.
• Identifying cause and effects of incidents.
• Fault, event and investigation trees.
• Concepts of incident causation.
• Incident investigation process, interview techniques.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Explain why workplace accidents need to be reported and investigated.
• Explain the concepts of multiple causation and root-cause analysis.
• Detail an incident investigation process using a hypothetical incident.
• Produce an incident investigation report based on a documented incident.

Course structure

The course is a combination of theoretical and practical sessions. Students are assessed continuously during the course.