Accident and Incident Investigation and Rooth Cause Analysis

Description

The Accident and Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis Training is a specialized program designed to empower organizations to effectively investigate workplace incidents and identify underlying causes. This training ensures that participants can develop actionable strategies to prevent recurrences, enhance safety, and comply with regulatory requirements.

Introduction

• Root cause analysis

• ‘5 whys’ technique

• Fault tree analysis

• Event tree analysis

• Cause and effect analysis/fishbone diagram

Objectives

Occupational Health and Safety Outline

Incident Terminology, arguments for investigation and management system requirements

• Key incidents terminologies

• Types of injuries

• Near misses

• Dangerous occurrences

• Why do we investigate incidents?

  • Moral, Legal and Financial arguments for investigations

  • Management system requirements (ISO 45001)

  • Benefits of incidents investigation

  • Investigating near misses

Human and Organizational Factors contributing to incidents

• Individual factors (competence, skills, personality, attitudes, risk perception)

• Organizational factors (culture, leadership, resources, work patterns, communications)

• Job factors (task, workload, environment, display & controls, procedures)

• Conscious and unconscious actions (slips, lapses, rule-based mistakes, knowledge-based mistakes)

The process for investigating incidents

• What should be investigated

  • What does a good investigation look like?

  • Loss causation model

  • Immediate causes, underlying causes, and root causes

  • Incident investigation teams

    • Deciding to investigate and the level of investigation

    • Pre-investigation actions

    • The four-stage investigation process

    • Information gathering, analysis of information, risk control measures, developing an action plan

    • Post investigation and developing investigation report