Accident | Incident Investigation

Description

The ILO estimates that some 2.3 million women and men around the world succumb to work-related accidents or diseases every year; this corresponds to over 6000 deaths every single day. Worldwide, there are around 340 million occupational accidents and 160 million victims of work-related illnesses annually.

This course gives you an opportunity to find out what went wrong. Learning the lessons and taking action may reduce, or even prevent, accidents in the future.

As a step-by-step approach of investigating the incident, it will help you, particularly smaller businesses, to carry out your own health and safety investigations. Investigating accidents and incidents explains why you need to carry out investigations and takes you through each step of the process.

What to expect

• Memorable case studies

• Sessions with  clear examples.

• Summaries to reinforce key points

• Multiple choice quiz after each session.

• Successful completion of assignment  awarded a certificate.(Soft-copy)

Top 4 business benefits

• Making a safer workplace

• Improving worker confidence

• Preventing future business losses from disruption , down-time and lost business

• Developing useful skills and knowledge that can be applied throughout the organization

After the course there will be an assessment 20 multiple choice questions to assess your knowledge.

Course content:

1. INTRODUCTION

i. ILO statistics

ii. Reasons of manage OSH

iii. Responsibilities of employer

iv. Why investigate?

v. What Law says?

2. DEFINITIONS

i. Hazard

ii. Risk

iii. Incident

iv. Accident

v. Near miss

vi. Dangerous occurrence

vii. Days lost

viii. First aid case

ix. Lost Time Injury (LTI)

x. Medical treatment case (MTC)

xi. Risk control measures

xii. Immediate Cause

xiii. Underlying Cause

xiv. Root Cause

xv. Unsafe Act

xvi. Unsafe Condition

3. ACCIDENT THEORIES

i. Accident Ratio Study

ii. Domino Theory

iii. Multiple Causation Theory

iv. Cause & Effect Concept

4. HUMAN FAILURE

i. Human errors

ii. Human violations

iii. Factors Affecting Human Behavior

5. INCIDENT INVESTIGATION PROCEDURE

i. Reasons for investigation

ii. Level of Investigation

iii. Under Reporting

iv. Written plan for investigation

v. Incident investigation procedures

vi. When should it start?

vii. What makes a good investigation?

viii. Role of OHS policy

ix. Emergency response

x. Initial report

xi. Steps of Investigation

xii. Step one : Gathering the information

xiii. Step two : Analyzing the information

xiv. Step three : Identifying risk control measures

xv. Step four : The action plan and its implementation

After each section, there will be a session quiz.

Finally there will be a report writing assignment which you have to submit within 7 days from course completion. This assignment will enable you to develop report writing skill and convince the management to take action.

What You Will Learn!

• The definitions and terminology of occupational health and safety.
• The principle theories of accident in practice.
• The human failures lead to accident.
• Four steps of accident investigation process.
• Demonstration of report writing.

Who Should Attend!

• Who are working as Occupational Health and Safety or related position.
• Managers , Engineers m Supervisors.
• Who wish to become Occupational Health and Safety professionals
• Anyone responsible for accident investigation within their organisation.

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