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Basic Accident Investigation Training

Aims 

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At the end of the course delegates will have an appreciation of:

• Why accident investigations should be carried out.

• How to carry them out effectively.

• The relevant legal health and safety requirements to carry out investigations.

• The people who may be involved.

• How to structure an investigation to maximise information gathering and how to analyse findings to identify causes and determine where responsibility lies.

• How to write a good investigation report.

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Duration

1 day

Content

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Module 1: Key Definitions

• Hazard

• Accident

• Incident

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Module 2: Requirement to Investigate Accidents/Incidents

• Why investigate Accidents/Incidents?

• Requirement to investigate Accidents/Incidents

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Module 3: The Cost of Accidents & Incidents

• Iceberg Theory (Insured costs/Uninsured costs)

• Accident Ratio’s (Bird Triangle)

• Human Costs

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Module 4: Control Measures and Human Failure

• Error (Slip/Lapse/Mistake) Violation

• Exercise – Identify where the ‘barriers’ failed

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Module 5: Immediate and Underlying Causes

• Henrich’s Domino Theory of Accident Causation

• Immediate Cause – Unsafe Act/Unsafe Condition

• Exercise – Unsafe Act or Unsafe Condition?

• Underlying Causes

• Why?/Because Model

• Influencing Factors

• Model of causal analysis (why? because, why? because)

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Module 6: Evidence Gathering and Sequence of Events

• Types of Evidence (Perishable evidence/Non-perishable evidence)

• Determining sequence of events

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Module 7: Conducting Interviews

• Guidance on how to conduct an interview

• Aims and Objectives of an interview

• Purpose of an interview

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Module 8: Actions and Recommendations

• SMART Actions (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timescaled)

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