As part of workplace risk prevention, it is essential to be able to analyze a workplace accident to fulfill the company's duty of prevention. Employee health and safety has become a major focus for businesses, which has led to a significant reduction in the number of workplace accidents in recent years. This training in workplace accident analysis will enable you to understand and analyze workplace accidents, near misses, and high-risk incidents. You will thus become an active participant in workplace prevention.
Goals
- – To establish an accurate account of the events during a workplace accident
- Extracting objective facts from a narrative
- Connecting facts by constructing a cause-and-effect tree
- Choosing prevention measures that are relevant for the company and its employees
Program
- – Introduction to the analysis of workplace accidents: Definitions of a workplace accident in a company. Consequences of a workplace accident for the company and its employees. The importance of prevention and the significance of accident analysis.
- Conducting the post-accident investigation as part of an analysis: Gathering information and compiling a narrative of facts; Distinguishing between facts, opinions, and knowledge. Managing witness statements and the managerial report.
- Understanding the general methodology of the fault tree analysis: Chronologically ordering the facts. Distinguishing the relationships between the facts (conjunctions?). Constructing your fault tree
- Practical application in the context of an analysis of a work accident: Study of a concrete accident – Case study.
- Establishment of preventive measures. Definition of criteria for choosing between established solutions. Implementation and monitoring of preventive actions.
Evaluation and validation methods
Monitoring and ongoing participation of trainees in the training
Target audience
Members of the Works Council/Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committee. Prevention officers. Stakeholders in company prevention.
Prerequisites
none