Understand the principles and practice of effective safety investigation and analysis and how to achieve better system safety.

Co-designed by academic and industry leaders, this course will improve your safety investigation skills, including:

• knowing when to investigate
• collecting evidence, including conducting interviews
• analysing evidence using multiple tools, including the Bowtie and Accimap
• documenting and communicating findings.
   

Aligned with RIIWHS301E – to be accredited from July 2023.

What you'll learn

• Understand how to use an investigation process to examine unwanted or unexpected events in work activities, including incidents and accidents.
• Develop internal skills for collecting and analysing evidence and identifying incident trends.
• Understand the value of personally committing to managing safety investigations and setting accountability.
• Know how to make and implement recommendations for enhancing safety.
• Identify new opportunities for continuous improvement.

Course curriculum

Introduction to safety investigation and analysis

• Why and when to investigate
• Legislation
• Local policies and procedures
• Summary of current research

How to scope and plan an investigation

• Planning your investigation to identify the scope, resources and more.

Gathering evidence

Overview of gathering methods of evidence, including:

• interview techniques
• storage of evidence.

Analysis of evidence

Overview of analysing the evidence, including the use of:

• Bowtie
• Accimap.

Findings, recommendation and actions 

• Overview of how to document your findings and develop an action plan.

Communication

Overview of communication, including:

• writing the investigation report
• communication of findings.

Time commitment
This is an in-person course that will require roughly 25 hours to complete.

• 5 hours of study using online materials
• 2-day workshop
• 4 hours to complete the final assessment.

Assessment
You must complete 3 assessments during the workshop to demonstrate that you have acquired adequate incident investigation and analysis skills, including:

• 2 written assessments documenting an incident investigation
• 1 online quiz.

Certification and accreditation
Students who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of Completion to verify their skills and achievements.

Related courses
This course is part of the Risk Management suite. There are 9 courses within this suite – see the other related courses below:
Risk Management 1 – Risk and Critical Control Management
Risk Management 2 – G3 G-MIRM Risk Management Systems
Risk Management 3 – G2 Risk Management for Supervisors
Risk Management 4 – G7: Mine Occupational Health and Safety Management
Risk Management 5 – Process and Systems Safety Engineering
Risk Management 6 – Bowtie Facilitation Course
Risk Management 8 – Safety Investigation and Analysis Management
Risk Management 9 – Introduction to Human Factors and Human-Centred Design in Mining

Who should attend
Managers, supervisors and professional staff who conduct safety investigations, including:

• mine or project-level general managers, mine managers, section managers, superintendents, mine captains, plant supervisors, senior technical staff, safety managers and practitioners, and incident investigators
• division or corporate technical and functional staff such as engineering, ventilation, safety, human resources, finance, and procurement
• contractor managers.
   

Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements for this course.