Incident Investigation Workshop

Overview

Course duration: 1 day.

This one-day workshop will help you to adopt a structured and effective approach to the identification of the immediate and underlying causes of work related incidents.

Accidents occurring at work account for over 200 fatalities per year to employees and self employed people. Additionally, in the region of 150,000 people sustain major injuries or injuries that prevent them from performing their primary role at work for more than three days.Overtwo million cases of ill health are caused or worsened by work.

The benefits of investigating incidents include:

• Identification of immediate,underlying and root causes allowing effective measures to be implemented to prevent a recurrence
• A better understanding of the risks associated with work activities
• Reduction in accidents and ill health resulting in financial savings, such as insurance costs
• Effective investigation of all incidents plays an important part in effective health and safety management.

Is it right for me?

This one-day workshop is designed for personnel such as safety advisers, managers, safety representatives, supervisors or anyone with a responsibility to investigate incidents within their place of work and to make such people aware of the importance of, and skills required when, investigating incidents in the workplace.

What will I learn?

By the end of this courseyou will be able to:

• Appreciate the moral, legal and financial reasons for reducing injury and ill health resulting from work activities
• Understand the principles and methodology of risk assessment
• Understand the recording and reporting requirements of all work related incidents
• Adopt a structured and effective approach to the identification of the immediate, underlying and rootcauses of work related incidents

What will it cover?

• Legal requirements for recording and reporting of incidents and accidents in the workplace
• Causes of accidents and human behaviour
• Accident case studies
• Interview techniques
• Investigation techniques based on HSE Guidance
• Investigation report writing