Incident Management & Investigation Course

Investigating health and safety incidents in the workplace is crucial because it allows companies to identify the root causes of accidents, implement corrective actions to prevent future occurrences, maintain legal compliance, foster a strong safety culture, and ultimately protect employee well-being by learning from past mistakes and proactively managing risks

Key content

By the end of this session participants will be able to:

Be able to explain why workplace accidents need to be reported and investigated
Gain insight into the importance of incident investigation, barriers to reporting and how to overcome them
Understand the legal, financial, and moral aspects of investigating workplace incidents
Understand how to safely manage an incident scene
Understand the concepts of multiple causation and root-cause analysis
Be able to detail an incident investigation process using a hypothetical incident
Produce an incident investigation report based on a documented incident
Understand what is a Notifiable Event and what actions to take if one occurs

Suitability

All members of staff who are required to undertake incident investigations and health and safety representatives

Facilitator

A member of the Health, Safety and Wellbeing team

Cost

Free

Cancellation and enrolment information

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