PA-002 · Safety leadership
Modern Accident Investigation and Event Learning
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This course is part of the Certificate in Applied Safety Leadership Foundations within the Diploma in Applied Safety Leadership. Certificate and diploma enrollment are not yet open. Individual course completion follows the requirements on this page. Open My Learning classroom. Give course or module feedback.
Develop an evidence-based investigation, examine work conditions, plan effective actions, and hand over useful learning.
Assessment and retake policy · Three submitted quiz or exam attempts per set, followed by required review or approved remediation.
All 10 modules available · Final assessment included. Follow the investigation from its purpose and evidence through explanation testing, human factors, reporting, corrective actions, patterns, and an integrated capstone.
Course outline
For supervisors and developing EHS practitioners. Start with the investigation purpose, then work through evidence, explanations and follow-through. No prior course is required; follow your employer’s procedures and involve qualified specialists when needed.
Module 1: Starting an Investigation That Can Support Learning
Set a useful investigation purpose, respect response boundaries, and separate evidence from early explanations.
Module 2: Evidence and Scene Preservation
Preserve changing scene information, document limits, and make an accountable evidence handover.
Module 3: Interviewing and Witness Information
Prepare interviews, invite open accounts, clarify uncertainty, and check the record with the participant.
Module 4: Event Reconstruction
Build an evidence-linked timeline, retain competing sequences, and identify focused follow-up and specialist boundaries.
Module 5: Testing Explanations
Compare competing explanations against evidence, revise unsupported claims, and define focused follow-up.
Module 6: Systems and Human Factors
Examine actual work, information, handoffs and control performance without substituting blame labels for evidence.
Module 7: Reporting and Records
Prepare traceable reports, corrections and handovers while keeping legal reporting and private records within their proper processes.
Module 8: Corrective Actions and Verified Learning
Select condition-specific actions, assign accountable owners, and verify implementation and effectiveness.
Module 9: Patterns Across Events
Check event data, denominators and recurring conditions, then propose a focused control review.
Module 10: Specialist Boundaries and Integrated Capstone
Prepare a specialist referral and an integrated evidence, action and learning handover.
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