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Incident & Accident Prevention & Investigation Best Practices

Incident & Accident Prevention & Investigation Best Practices
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

21-25 Apr 2025
Dubai
$5,950
28 Jul-01 Aug 2025
Dubai
$5,950
01-05 Dec 2025
Dubai
$5,950
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Training Overview

Training Overview

Organizations have adopted advanced methods for incident and accident investigation and analysis. A key aspect of the HSE Management System is to identify and address the root causes that lead to such events. Mastery of modern investigative tools enables organizations to learn from incidents and accidents, prevent their recurrence, and identify weaknesses in management and operational systems that contributed to the occurrence. A robust investigative process is essential for fostering continuous improvement in an organization’s HSE performance.

This Incident & Accident Prevention & Investigation Best Practices training course will enable you to:

  • Define the potential hazardous events
  • Understand incident/accident investigation and causation techniques
  • Define all incident/accident investigation and analysis stages
  • Carry out Initial actions in response to incident/accidents
  • Gather evidence and data relevant to the incident/accident investigation

What are the goals?

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain incident/accidents/accidents and their relationship to hazardous events
  • Explain the causes of incident/accidents/accidents using investigative causation models
  • Carry out initial actions following an incident/accident/accident on site and collect factual evidence
  • Detail the methods for effective evidence gathering and preservation
  • Lead Incident/accident Investigation Team

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Safety or risk professionals needing to have a full understanding of the modern tools available to be competent in incident/accident investigations
  • Professionals with roles and responsibilities for safety in the workplace

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This training course is based on a balanced combination of topic discussions, video presentation and workshop sessions supported by real incident/accident' reports and video/photo evidence.

The Course Content

Day One: Framework for Incident/Accident Investigations
  • Course Introduction and Structure
  • Incident/accident investigation and the blame culture
  • The Relationship between 'Accidents' and 'Incident/accidents'
  • Human error and contribution to incident/accidents
  • The link between reactive and pro-active risk management
  • Framework for Incident/accident Investigation and Analysis
  • Management systems (latent) failures and root causes of Incident/accidents
Day Two: Incident/Accident Investigation & Causation Factors
  • Why and who should investigate?
  • The role of the 'Organisation' in incident/accident causation and effects.
  • Establishing  'no blame' investigation culture
  • Human error and incident/accident causation
  • Witnesses interview techniques
  • Introduction to Root Cause  Analysis (RCA)
Day Three: Incident/Accident Investigation Process
  • The principle stages of an incident/accident Investigation
  • Planning the investigation of an incident/accident
  • How to manage investigator bias and pre-mind-set opinions
  • Introduction of advanced incident/accident investigation tools
  • Fault Tree Analysis as an incident/accident investigation and analysis tool
  • Root Cause Analysis tool to identify root-causes of incident/accidents
Day Four: Causation Factor & Group Case Studies
  • Introduction to direct and indirect causation factors
  • Application of consequence analysis to understand potential hazardous events
  • Case study on conducting incident/accident investigation
  • Case study on Writing an Incident/accident Report
  • When an how to use different  types of incident/accident investigation techniques and tools
Day Five: Planning and Implementing
  • The role of Incident/accident investigation Team and Team Leader
  • Analysis of the consequences- gathering evidence
  • Analysing potential  fire, explosion and toxic release events
  • Preparation of incident/accident reports, conclusions and recommendations
  • The use of incident/accident investigation as a Audit tool
  • Discussion and course review