This 1 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. Over 2 million cases of ill health are caused or worsened by work.
Accident are extremely costly both in terms of suffering and injuries to people, damage to the environment, loss and production and damage to an organisations reputation. Having trained and effective incident investigators can prevent a recurrence of such events.
- 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 and underlying causes of work related incidents
By the end of this course you will be able to:
We aim to use up to date case studes using material that will help the learner to transfer knowledge gained from this one day course into the workplace.
- What is an accident?; defining an accident or incident and incident theory including Heinrich’s domino theory.
- What to do in the event of an accident; collection of information and statements from individuals. This also includes interviewing techniques.
- Analysis into incident causation; techniques to find the root cause of an accident including fault trees.
The course consists of the following section:
Course Delivery: can be either in house or on-site
- Accident Investigation
- Asbestos Awareness Training
- Basic Health & Safety (Introduction)
- Business Continuity (BS25999)
- Business Continuity Implementation and Audit
- Certificate - Business Continuity Institute (CBCI)
- Construction Design Management (CDM) regulations 2007
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
- Coshh Risk Assessment
- Designing Safe Systems of Work
