Course Content
This training course will help learners to achieve structured and consistent investigations through the following content:
- Why investigate?
- Problems / failings of investigations
- Accident categories and the language of investigation
- Gathering information
- Immediate aftermath of the accident, priorities
- Structuring the investigation – what happened, why it happened, how to stop it happening again
- Witness interviewing techniques
- Other evidence gathering
- Behavioural considerations
- Human factor failures between person / job / organisation
- Examples of simple analysis tools that can be used relative to incident severity (case studies will be used to replicate investigations and provide practice in some of the techniques) - fault tree & event tree analysis - 5 why - fish bone utilising 4Ps (place, person, process, plant)
- Drawing conclusions about causation and recommendations / action plans to prevent recurrence
- Dealing with enforcing authorities and other external bodies
- Report writing and presentation of findings