Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct a thorough incident investigation.
Course Key Learning
Incidents occur every day in a workplace. The failure of people, equipment, the environment and management systems to behave as expected cause most of these incidents. Incidents and injuries are always undesirable. Investigating incidents is important to learn what went wrong so repeat occurrences can be prevented. In this workshop, attendees will learn why to conduct incident investigations and how to capture information vital for performing an effective root cause analysis. The root cause analysis portion of an event investigation is covered in RCA201.
Course Modules
- Benefits of Incident Investigation
- Role and qualification of an Investigator
- Team selection
- Data collection at site
- Interview techniques