AIMS:
The aim of this course is to provide shipboard personnel with the knowledge and skills required to effectively investigate accidents, incidents, and near misses onboard ships. The course enables participants to identify immediate, underlying, and root causes of incidents, apply relevant maritime regulations and industry guidelines, conduct systematic investigations, prepare accurate reports, and recommend corrective and preventive measures to enhance safety performance and prevent recurrence.
OBJECTIVES:
- Understanding the reasons behind carrying out an investigation
- How to collect physical and human evidence
- Interview techniques
- Understanding the causes of incidents and accidents.
- Understanding the human element
- Conducting an accident/Incident Investigation
- Analysing root causes, using tools and techniques, evaluation, report writing, and follow-up of an incident/accident
COURSE CONTENT:
- Introduction
- Proactive health and safety management onboard
- Why investigate accidents?
- Accident studies
- Legislation and industry guidelines
- Cause and effect
- Control
- Stages of incident investigation
- Larent failures
- Incident potential
- Principles of incident prevention
- Inspection
- Incident investigation guidelines
- Extract from group guidelines, incident investigation guidelines 1
- Extract from group guidelines, incident investigation guidelines 2
- Report writing
- Accident investigation process
- Regulations and guidelines
- Human factor analysis
- Root cause analysis
- Data collection and analysis
Modules: 27
