Online Accident Investigation Training Course

Overview

Statistics from the HSE (Health and Safety Executive), the UK's health and safety regulator, report that 561,000 people sustained an injury at work during 2022/23. The process of accident investigation is an important tool in occupational safety. Employers gain further information to understand any events that did or had the potential to, cause personal injury, and use this information to prevent future accidents, occupational diseases, and property damage to work premises.

What you will learn

In this accident investigation online e-learning course, we will:

• Define the key terms associated with accident investigation, including adverse events and near misses.
• Give the reasons for investigating accidents and incidents.
• Discuss the benefits of investigating adverse events and safety issues.
• Define the terms ‘immediate,’ ‘underlying’ and ‘root’ causes.
• Cover the actions to be taken following an adverse event before an investigation can take place, such as incident reporting.
• Discuss the stages of a structured approach to adverse event investigation.

Practical Application

Case studies help take your learning to the next level. This Accident Investigation Introductory Course works through an example of an adverse event investigation to explore how they work in practice.

What are the benefits of taking an accident investigation course online?

Taking an accident investigation online course offers flexibility, allowing participants to study at their own pace and schedule. It provides access to up-to-date best practice information and the convenience of distance learning; all you need is an internet connection.

Our e-learning platform also makes it easy to manage training for you and your team.

Duration

It takes approximately 60 minutes to complete the course. This can be spread out over multiple sessions or completed in a single session, and there is no time limit for completion.

Assessment

All candidates must complete a multiple choice assessment after working through the training material. The candidate will be asked 12 multiple choice questions and need to answer a minimum of 9 correctly to pass. Candidates will be given instant feedback after completing the assessment stating whether they have passed or failed. The assessment can be retaken as many times as is required to pass at no additional cost.

Module Summary

Successful candidates will receive a IIRSM Certificate and 1 CPD Credit.

This course certificate has no expiry date because there is no formally recognised period of validity for any health and safety training or this type of course. The HSE recommends refresher training is carried out whenever it is felt necessary. Safety registration bodies such as CHAS, SafeContractor, ConstructionLine & SMAS and other members of the SSiP scheme recommend that most re-training is done every 3 years. We would recommend refreshing knowledge as and when legislation or guidance changes applicable to these regulations.

All of our courses, systems and services have been registered to the internationally recognised ISO 9001:2015 quality standard. Quality Management Systems Ltd (QMS) made this prestigious award to Commodious in January 2018. This gives assurance that the training and assessment was completed with a quality registered organisation.

After a successful purchase you will be automatically taken to our registration process. Here you create your learner(s) and assign the course(s) to them so that they can start training immediately. If you do not know all the learner details - no problem, you can return later and create the learners when it suits you.

The system automatically creates an admin group of your learners, this means you can access your learner accounts to obtain certificates or schedule reports on the progress of your group, useful for Health & Safety audits or Registration to organisations such as CHAS, SMAS, SafeContractor, ConstructionLine etc or site access when certificates are required.

If this all sounds too complicated feel free to contact us, we are more than happy to enrol you or your colleagues on your behalf.