Health & Safety Intro/Series & Basics of Incident Investigation

Health & Safety – An Introduction

This course serves as an introduction into the world of health and safety, and explores different basic concepts such as:

• Identification of hazards
• Hierarchy of controls
• The basic role of health and safety committees
• The general duty clause
• Basics on the right to refuse

Basics of Incident Investigations

This workshop covers:

• Causes of workplace incidents, injuries and fatalities
• Causes of workplace disease
• Routes of entry: exposures to toxic substances
• Health & Safety problem tree
• How to conduct incident and disease investigations
• Simulated incident investigation