This course will guide you through the essentials of failure investigation and analysis from initial actions to long-term learning, including legal requirements outlined by the Health and Safety Executive.
You will learn how to carry out a thorough and well documented investigation following inconvenient and costly failure, including procedures at the incident scene for recovery, handling and analysis of evidence, how to establish a panel of inquiry and how the data from failure analysis can be used for future Asset Management decisions.
The results of catastrophic failure can often lead to issues of liability and compensation. The course includes the briefing and use of expert witnesses in legal proceedings.
The Need for Failure Analysis and Investigation
Procedures and techniques in failure analysis
Failure Investigation in the Field
Failure Mechanisms
Failure Analysis in Asset Management Decision-making
Panel Discussion
Programme may be subject to amendment
Understand the principles that cause failures and the skills to identify causes of failures
Course covered several things we do on a day-to-day basis. Good knowledge from instructor.
Andrew, 2 November 2021