Accident Investigation & BSCAT

Course Overview

This course introduces the fundamentals of accident and incident prevention and investigation. It is a course that aims to provide participants with sufficient knowledge to understand how to employ defenses to prevent accidents and incidents from occurring and how to approach and conduct the accident and investigation process.

The BSCAT method refers to a method that links modern risk–based safety management approaches to systematic root cause incident investigation.

Learning Objectives

1 Learners will be able to determine actual and potential severity

2 Learners will be able to to collect and organize evidence

3 Learners will learn how to apply barrier-based approach to model an incident

4 Learners will be able to create an accident timeline

5 Learners will be able to o report an incident (appropriate to situation)

Course Outline

Day One

Introduction to Incidents and Accidents

Why do accident investigations fail?
The scale of the problem & Cost of accidents
Accident causation and prevention
Reporting and Investigation requirements
Legislation & Procedures
Establishing Work Relationship
BSCAT – Barrier Systematic Causation Analysis Technique
Accident Timelines & RCA
Investigation and Reporting of Incidents
Effective investigation
Collection of facts and evidence
Reaching conclusions and taking action
Recording evidence/electronic reporting
Obtaining further help
Develop Corrective Action, Report Data and Recommendations
Conclusions of report

Who Should Attend?

This highly practical and interactive course has been specifically designed for:

HSE, Operations and Maintenance Staff – senior operators, maintenance technicians, supervisors Process reliability staff Process quality control/assurance staff