The NEW NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation is a qualification that is a must have for those people having managerial and supervisory responsibilities especially Health and Safety Professionals, HR personnel and other Managerial and Supervisory staff.

Learners embarking on a health and safety career path and those who already have the NEBOSH IG/NG in OHS will benefit from this program as they will be able to better perform detailed incident investigation in their particular roles.

The course will enable learners to:

• Independently investigate simple incidents
• Gather evidence including conducting witness interviews
• Produce an action plan to prevent a recurrence of an incident
• Contribute to team investigations for large scale incidents
• Positively impact the safety culture in your organisation

Course Syllabus

The qualification has been created after a lot of research with many of the worlds leading organizations with an aim to improve the standard of investigating incidents and provide a consistent and highly effective approach to investigation and covers the below topics:

• Moral, legal and financial arguments for investigations
• Human and organisational factors that can contribute to an incident
• The benefits of achieving good worker wellbeing
• The process for investigating incidents
• Positive interview strategies and the barriers to successful interviews

Benefits for employers:

• Fulfil legal obligation of effectively investigating all incidents
• Demonstrate fulfilment of moral responsibility and management commitment towards all interested and affected parties due to an incident in terms of health and safety
• Improve overall efficiency in terms of health and safety management, reduce incidents and in turn improve production thus impacting on overall performance including financial performance of the organization

Course Duration:

• 1 day (including practical assessment)

Assessment :

Assessment is divided into two parts

No entry requirements or qualification pre requisites for this qualification

Delivery modes :

• Face to Face* and Distance Learning

Course Materials :

Ebook developed by NEBOSH

You will receive your results within 24 working days of sitting the assessments. Once you have achieved a pass a qualification parchment will be issued. This is normally within 40 working days of the confirmation of the successful unit.