Accredited Advanced Incident Investigation

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An understanding of the real causes of accidents can minimize workplace incidents, which are the root cause of injuries, property damage, and financial losses.

While, most organisations have systemic incident analysis methods, there remains a distinct variability in the quality and robustness of the investigations for several reasons:

Not all organisations have a clearly defined risk-based approach to classifying safety occurrences and may not investigate to a comprehensive standard
Investigators have difficulty in distinguishing between contributing and non-contributing factors
The point at which control is lost is not always well defined, leading to a poor understanding of the efficacy of existing prevention and mitigation critical risk controls
The distinction between human failures and latent systemic conditions could be inconsistent due to a lack of well defined and structured list of contributing factor types leading to lost opportunities to identify repeat failure trends from which to direct more strategic accident prevention activities.

This accredited course covers the processes involved in conducting a systematic incident investigation.

The Advanced Incident Investigation course is accredited by ASCB, one of the world’s leading international accreditation bodies, respected for its integrity, practicality and impartiality. ASCB belongs to the Global Accreditation Forum (GAF), an international association for accreditation, which promotes best practices in quality assurance worldwide. This recognition means that the Root Cause Analysis and Incident Investigation course is recognized internationally.

Who should attend this course?

This training is suitable for individuals with a responsibility for investigating incidents. It is also suitable for individuals who wish to acquire knowledge on the principles of methodical incident investigation.

Course Contents

Day 1

Introduction and reasons for investigation incidents – Moral/Legal and financial arguments.
Terms of Reference/Definitions used in Incident investigations.
Types and categories of accidents
Loss causation theories – Domino and multi-causation theories
Swiss cheese models
Accident prevention – significance of Near Miss reporting and investigations

Day 2

Factors involved in Accidents – Technical and Human
Effective reporting systems and procedures
Sources of Information/ Epidemiology
Assessing the significance of incidents and level of investigation required
The accident investigation process – gather information, analyze information for root causes, identifying control measures and developing action plan for implementation

Day 3

Advance risk assessment analysis tools – failure tracing methods
Fault tree analysis (FTA)
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA),
Event Tree Analysis (ETA)
Case Studies – Customized
Internal system for collecting, recording, analyzing and communication of incident datas – statistical analysis and presentation.