Overview
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.
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
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.
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.
Course curriculum
Assessment
Participants must complete 3 assessments during the workshop to demonstrate that they have acquired adequate incident investigation and analysis skills, including 2 written assessments documenting an incident investigation and 1 online quiz.
Facilitators
Cost
Applicant | Price |
---|---|
Individual domestic (excluding GST) | A$1,500 |
Individual international (GST not payable) | A$1,500 |
Please see the Terms and Conditions (PDF, 123.12 KB).
GST is excluded from the cost
Payment optionsWe accept credit cards (Visa/MasterCard) for payment, including corporate credit cards. If you do not have access to a card, please contact our team at education@smi.uq.edu.au to discuss your options.
Location
UQ St Lucia
Related courses
This course is part of the Risk Management suite. There are 10 courses within this suite – see the other related courses below:
- Risk Management 1 – Risk and Critical Control Management
- Risk Management 2 – G3: GMIRM Risk Management Systems
- Risk Management 3 – G3: GMIRM Risk Management Systems, Cloncurry
- Risk Management 4 – G3: GMIRM Risk Management Systems, South Burnie
- Risk Management 5 – G7: Mine Occupational Health and Safety Management
- Risk Management 6 – Process and Systems Safety Engineering
- Risk Management 7 – Bowtie Facilitation Course
- Risk Management 9 – Incident Investigation and Analysis Management
- Risk Management 10 – Introduction to Human Factors and Human-Centred Design in Mining
Contact
Sustainable Minerals Institute
For more professional development options, visit the Sustainable Minerals Institute website.