Incident & Accident Prevention & Investigation Best Practices

An Intensive 5-day Training Course

Incident & Accident Prevention
& Investigation Best Practices

Training Course Overview

Organizations have implemented effective techniques for incident and accident investigation and analysis. A core function of the HSE Management System is to identify and define the root causes that lead to incidents and accidents. Proficiency in using modern investigation tools helps organizations learn from these events, prevent their recurrence, and assess the extent and location of any management or operational system flaws (root causes) that contributed to the occurrence. A thorough and analytical investigation process is crucial for driving continuous improvement in an organization's HSE performance.

This Incident & Accident Prevention & Investigation Best Practices training course will enable you to:

  • Define the potential hazardous events
  • Understand incident/accident investigation and causation techniques
  • Define all incident/accident investigation and analysis stages
  • Carry out Initial actions in response to incident/accidents
  • Gather evidence and data relevant to the incident/accident investigation

Training Course Objectives

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain incident/accidents/accidents and their relationship to hazardous events
  • Explain the causes of incident/accidents/accidents using investigative causation models
  • Carry out initial actions following an incident/accident/accident on site and collect factual evidence
  • Detail the methods for effective evidence gathering and preservation
  • Lead Incident/accident Investigation Team

Designed for

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Safety or risk professionals needing to have a full understanding of the modern tools available to be competent in incident/accident investigations
  • Professionals with roles and responsibilities for safety in the workplace

Learning Methods

This training course is based on a balanced combination of topic discussions, video presentation and workshop sessions supported by real incident/accident' reports and video/photo evidence.

The Course Outline

Day One: Framework for Incident/Accident Investigations
  • Course Introduction and Structure
  • Incident/accident investigation and the blame culture
  • The Relationship between 'Accidents' and 'Incident/accidents'
  • Human error and contribution to incident/accidents
  • The link between reactive and pro-active risk management
  • Framework for Incident/accident Investigation and Analysis
  • Management systems (latent) failures and root causes of Incident/accidents
Day Two: Incident/Accident Investigation & Causation Factors
  • Why and who should investigate?
  • The role of the 'Organisation' in incident/accident causation and effects.
  • Establishing 'no blame' investigation culture
  • Human error and incident/accident causation
  • Witnesses interview techniques
  • Introduction to Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Day Three: Incident/Accident Investigation Process
  • The principle stages of an incident/accident Investigation
  • Planning the investigation of an incident/accident
  • How to manage investigator bias and pre-mind-set opinions
  • Introduction of advanced incident/accident investigation tools
  • Fault Tree Analysis as an incident/accident investigation and analysis tool
  • Root Cause Analysis tool to identify root-causes of incident/accidents
Day Four: Causation Factor & Group Case Studies
  • Introduction to direct and indirect causation factors
  • Application of consequence analysis to understand potential hazardous events
  • Case study on conducting incident/accident investigation
  • Case study on Writing an Incident/accident Report
  • When an how to use different types of incident/accident investigation techniques and tools
Day Five: Planning and Implementing
  • The role of Incident/accident investigation Team and Team Leader
  • Analysis of the consequences- gathering evidence
  • Analysing potential fire, explosion and toxic release events
  • Preparation of incident/accident reports, conclusions and recommendations
  • The use of incident/accident investigation as a Audit tool
  • Discussion and course review

The Certificate

  • Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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