Accident Investigation Training Course

Accidents and incidents often arouse powerful emotions, particularly where they have resulted in death or serious injury. On the positive side, this means everyone's attention can be focused on improving prevention. On the negative side, however, the same emotions can also cause organisations and individuals to become highly defensive. This is natural and understandable but needs to be addressed positively if a culture of openness and confidence is to be engendered to support a mature approach to learning from accidents and incidents.

Effective accident investigation is not only a moral and legal duty, it also represents sound commercial sense, as identifying and addressing the root causes of accidents guards against future incidents.

Who should attend?

This occupational safety training course is aimed at people with responsibility for investigating accidents at supervisory level including line managers, supervisors, and safety representatives

What are the learning outcomes?

A broad understanding of accident investigation
Readily applicable accident investigation procedures
How to collect, analyse and communicate data
A robust understanding of RIDDOR
An understanding of strategies to ensure the organisation learns from safety failure.

Course content:

Accident reporting and scope of investigation
Accident investigation techniques
Stages of accident investigation
Practical exercises and case study.

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	Duration	Price	Member's Price	Dates
Birmingham Find other courses in this location View all training locations Contact us to book or find out more	1 Day	£240.00	£220.00	20/07/2012 03/09/2012 06/12/2012 15/03/2013

County Down Find other courses in this location View all training locations Contact us to book or find out more	1 Day	£240.00	£220.00	Call for dates

Edinburgh Find other courses in this location View all training locations Contact us to book or find out more	1 Day	£240.00	£220.00	07/06/2012 05/11/2012 12/03/2013

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Course outline

Also available to download: Accident Investigation (PDF 65kb)

Course objectives
On completion of this course delegates will understand:

The process and purpose of investigating accidents (incidents, cases of work-related ill-health and other occurrences)
The legal and organisational requirements for recording and reporting such incidents.

Who should attend?

This course is designed to introduce delegates to the importance of learning from health and safety failures and is suitable for people with responsibility for investigating at supervisory level including:

Line managers
Supervisors
Safety representatives.

Course content

Principles of accident prevention
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.

Qualification
All delegates successfully completing the course in full will be awarded the RoSPA certificate of training.

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Related information:

The occupational safety [Occupational Safety] section of the website has a wealth of advice and information on all areas of safety at work, in addition to details of our current campaigns, resources, conferences and affiliated groups.

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