OVERVIEW
This one day Accident Investigation course will give participants the necessary
information and skills to enable them to carry out a thorough and effective
accident investigation.
DESCRIPTION
This course will provide attendees with the necessary information and skills, to
reach the right conclusions, make effective, practical recommendations and
thereby make a significant contribution to improving workplace health and
safety.
Topics covered:
* Accidents & Accident Causation – If an organisation does not properly control
risks, the outcome of an accident often depends on chance. Because the
outcome of an accident cannot be accurately predicted, the only way to
effectively reduce accidents is by controlling the underlying causes of all
the different accident types.
* Accident Reporting Process – Reporting of Injuries, Diseases & Dangerous
Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR)
* The Process – You have 2 top priorities when you are first notified of an
accident. The first is to the injured person to ensure that appropriate
medical attention is available. The second priority is then to ensure that
the area is made safe to ensure no other persons are injured
* Accident Investigation – Every employer has a Moral, Legal & Economic
obligation to protect the health and safety of employees while at work
* The Cause of Accidents – During an accident investigation you will be looking
for the unsafe acts and the unsafe conditions which contributed to the
accident. If you carry out the investigation effectively, then you will find
the root cause or causes of the accident
* Facts to be Collated – When you conduct an accident investigation you should
be seeking to obtain information on unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, immediate
failures and latent failures. To find out these various elements of the
accident you need to ask the questions who, where, when, and what, which will
give you details of the event
* Reaching Conclusion – Identifying all the failure modes, satisfy all the
answers to what, where, why, who etc., and thus identify all the causes of
the accident
* Review of Session – Creating an action plan to embed learning.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Managers, leaders, trainers, health and safety officers and anyone involved in
health and safety training and/or procedures.
REQUIREMENTS FOR ATTENDEES
None.