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Understanding and Avoiding Workplace Accidents
- What is an accident
- How companies try to protect themselves
- Protective Barriers (figurative)
- Risk Control Measures
- Active Failures
- Latent Conditions
- How Barriers fail
- Learning from events
- Avoiding Accidents
Overview of the webinar
This webinar helps you to understand how accidents and incidents are caused (and hence how they are prevented). The webinar starts with the consideration of “What do we mean by an accident”? What do we mean by an incident? A simple model of Accident Causation is discussed and various supporting ideas are developed.
The concept of “Barriers” is introduced and the ways in which these barriers may be defeated is developed during the course of the webinar. This is related back to the Control Measures identified through your Risk Assessment process. Hard Barriers (such as Guards, Interlocks, Extraction Systems, etc.) are contrasted with Soft Barriers (such as Procedures, a Permit to Work System, Training and other Administrative Controls).
The concepts of Active Failures and Latent Conditions are developed by reference to examples. The relationship between the barriers and the risk assessment process is discussed and the importance of a robust process for risk assessment is highlighted.
The benefits of understanding and dealing with Latent Conditions is contrasted with that of dealing only with Active Failures. Although Active Failures are easier to deal with (from a management point of view) getting to grips with the issues raised by the Latent Conditions Offers the greater (and on-going) benefit to the Company.
The role of supervision and management in the development, implementation and the monitoring and checking of barriers is discussed. The concept and importance of Active Monitoring (as opposed to Reactive Monitoring) is investigated.
Learning from accidents and incidents (and from near miss events) is examined and this is compared to the benefits of learning from non-injury events (and from identifying events before they happen). The lessons learned can be used to help avoid future failures and to protect your people, your business and your reputation.
The role of Accident Investigation is covered during the webinar and the importance of understanding both the immediate cause and the underlying (or root) causes of accidents and incidents is discussed.
Who should attend?
- Companies Owners
- Directors and Vice Presidents
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Safety Officers
- Production Managers
- Operations Managers
- Warehouse Managers
- Engineers
- Leading Hands, Cell Leaders, Charge Hands etc
Why should you attend?
Learn how to avoid accidents and incidents, becoming a more caring and productive organization. Nobody wants to make “that call” to the next of kin or to see employees and work colleagues (or others) killed, injured or made ill by work.
Accidents and Incidents are bad for business: people are hurt/killed or made ill, commercial reputations are tarnished, contracts are lost, and time is lost. Understanding the causes of accidents/incident is an important step in preventing them in your workplace. The role of a robust risk assessment is essential to accident prevention. For many businesses, this may mean simple, cheap and effective measures to ensure that their most valuable asset (the workforce) is protected.
This webinar will introduce a simple way of considering accident/incident causation and relating it back into the risk assessment process and the controls that should be in place within your organization. It will highlight the difference between Active Failures and Latent Conditions that allows failures to occur. The role of supervision and management, of active monitoring, and of the checking and enforcement of the use of control measures will be covered.
It will provide you with the ideas and information you need to help you to protect people, including your own workers and other people that may be affected by your undertaking.This webinar will benefit organizations that want to take control of health and safety and want to protect their people from harm. The same approach will also help to protect the commercial reputation of the Company.
Faculty - Mr.Michael Ellerby
Michael Ellerby, LLB (Hons), BSc (Hons), CMIOSH, MIIRSM, MIFSM, CChem, MRSC, CSci, as well as being a Chartered Safety Professional and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), is a Chartered Chemist and Scientist. In addition to a degree in Chemistry, he also holds a degree in law. Mike runs his own Health and Safety Consultancy and has also acted as Competent Person (Head of Safety Services Department) for the University of Sheffield, England. Mike is a Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Certified Trainer who has written and delivered various training courses. He has acted as a technical author, consultant editor and reviewer of a wide range of safety publications for Companies such as Croner and Wolters Kluwer. Recent and current clients include DHL Air Ltd, The University of Sheffield, The Sweett Group and The British Library.
He has worked previously as a Technical Manager, Production Manager and Safety Officer for a multi-national industrial company and has been a health and safety consultant for many years (including working for one of the largest consultancies in the United Kingdom). He is now the Director of a health and safety consultancy, which is involved with a diverse range of clients (e.g. manufacturing, catering, logistics, care services, publishing, education, leisure, etc).
Michael has formulated and delivered a range of webinars in the field of Health and Safety. He also delivers a series of training courses on subjects such as Process Safety, Advanced Risk Assessment, Accident and Incident Causation, Accident Investigation, Inspection & Audit, etc.