Course Description
The 4-Days intensive Accident-Incident Safety Investigator Training Program provides you with a step-wise methodology to investigate accidents and incidents from a Safety Management Systems (SMS) perspective.
What Do Participants Learn?
BY THE END OF THE PROGRAM, PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
- Effectively and efficiently conduct accident and incident investigations
- Understand the step-wise process of investigating a transportation accident from initial notification to reporting
- Confidently interact with stakeholders and authorities
- Identify and preserve perishable data
- Use the CIIP to understand “what” happened and “why” it happened
- Use the human error identification tools to keep the accident reconstruction moving forward
- Identify risk and causal factors using why-because, 5 why’s, root cause, Ishikawa/fishbone/cause & effect, and substandard acts/conditions analyses
- Articulate data-driven explanations for incidents and accidents
- Evaluate the need for additional mitigations
- Perform risk assessments to determine the need for safety action
- Propose corrective action plans
- Draft reports that flow logically from accident narratives to data descriptions and analyses and clearly identify the risk and causal factors involved in incidents and accidents
Who Should Attend?
- Accident and Incident Safety Investigators
- Safety Inspectors
- Accident Reconstructionists
- Safety Officers and Safety Managers
- Occupational Health and Safety Professionals
- Municipal, provincial and federal transportation officials
- Transportation and manufacturing safety monitoring and regulating agencies and organizations
- Commercial transportation industry officials from all modes including aviation, marine, rail, pipeline, school bus, motor coach and trucking
- Manufacturing association officials and safety personnel
- Patient Safety and Healthcare Safety Professionals
- Labour Union Representatives
- Transportation Professionals
- Heavy Industry Professionals
- Safety and Compliance Specialists
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
- Safety investigation interviewing, the right way
- Assess the incident to decide if an investigation is required
- Assemble the investigation team
- Manage and communicate with stakeholders and authorities
- Find out what happened, not why it happened, by collecting the facts
- Photography and video for safety investigations, the right way
- Start building the action sequence
- Collect additional data
- Identify the safety significant actions
- Figure out why it happened by analyzing the data
- Why-because, 5 why’s, root cause, Ishikawa/fishbone/cause & effect, and substandard acts/conditions analyses
- Identify the risk factors
- Identify the causal factors
- Perform a mitigation assessment
- Perform a risk assessment
- Develop a corrective actions plan
- Document the investigation