Overview:
NEBOSH has collaborated on the development of this specialist qualification with the British Health and Safety Executive (HSE). HSE inspectors have noted that incident investigations were generally very poor. The collaboration, therefore, combines the advanced technical expertise of the HSE with NEBOSH’s ability to deliver strong vocational qualifications.
The qualification is aimed at managers, supervisors, SHE Champions, union representatives and aspiring health and safety practitioners.
On completion of the qualification, candidates will be able to:
• carry out a solo accident investigation for non- complex accidents and incidents including the gathering and analysis of evidence
• produce an action plan; and
• contribute to team incident investigations for large-scale incidents
The Programme:
On this programme you will cover elements leading to the following two Learning Outcomes:
Understand why incident investigations are carried out and how human and organisational factors contribute to incidents.
Understand how to investigate incidents and confidently carry out an investigation.
Content Areas:
- Moral, legal and financial arguments for investigations. Human and organisational factors.
- Investigating accidents and incidents.
- Positive strategies and the barriers to successful interviews.
- Advanced incident investigation techniques.
This qualification will be delivered over the equivalent of one day (depending on the mode of study). Students will be required to undertake three hours of pre-course reading before the course commences. Some suggestions for this pre-course reading include:
• reading and understanding the requirements of their organisation’s incident investigation policy;
• reviewing a sample of their organisation’s previous incident investigation reports to find what lessons have been learned; and
• reviewing some of the incident investigation case studies from the HSE’s website that may be relevant to their organisation