Preventing Accidents

Preventing Accidents

A one-day course on common human factor causes of workplace safety & quality accidents

Every year accidents costs UK
employers £billions - 9 million working
days were lost last year due to
workplace injury

What you will learn
The course will give a good understanding of:
* The human and financial costs of
workplace safety and quality accidents
* Why most accidents have human factor
causes
* Human errors and ways to prevent them
* How to look for human error risks in the
workplace
* Common factors that affect our behaviours
* The concept of behavioural observation
and feedback to change behaviour
* The approaches and processes that can be
used

The course
* Workplace safety and quality accident -
parallels and costs
* Why most accidents involve human factors
* Understanding and preventing human errors
in the workplace
* Changing behaviours in the workplace
* Approaches and processes that can be used

Who should attend?
* Safety and quality managers
* Production and other managers with
operational responsibilities for safety and
quality
* Technical and engineering staff who
provide equipment and operating
instructions
* Senior managers who wish to understand
the potential business benefits