Course Summary
NEBOSH and Great Britain’s Health and Safety Regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), have joined forces to develop a new one-day qualification that shows how non-complex incidents can be investigated effectively. It is designed to enable students to be able to carry out solo accident investigations, produce risk control plans and contribute to team incident/accident investigations for large-scale investigations.
Units/topics covered:
The NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation consists of one unit -
Unit INV1: Introduction to Incident Investigation which covers the following topics:
• Moral, legal and financial arguments for investigations
• Human and organisational factor
• Investigating accidents and incidents
• Positive strategies and the barriers to successful interviews
Attending the course will enable you to:
• Independently investigate simple incidents
• Gather evidence including conducting witness interviews
• Produce an action plan to prevent a recurrence of an incident
• Contribute to team investigations for large scale incidents
• Positively impact the safety culture in your organisation
Pre-requisites:
There are no entry requirements for this qualification, but’ it is recommended that learners should already have an underpinning knowledge of health and safety issues, and many will have gained another NEBOSH qualification. It is also important that learners have a suitable standard of English language in order to understand and articulate the concepts contained in the syllabus.
Validity of Course: This qualification does not expire.
Duration: 1 Day - It is a one-day course which involves a practical assessment at the end of the course.
Assessment: It is assessed by a one-hour evidence-based action plan activity.