Health, Safety and SecurityLearning from Major Industrial Incidents
Some of the world's costliest safety failures shared common warning signs that went unheeded. This course examines major industrial incidents, including African case studies where available, to extract practical lessons on organisational blind spots, decision making under pressure and the erosion of safety barriers over time. Participants apply these lessons directly to their own operations through structured barrier analysis exercises.
Course objectives
- Analyse the root causes and contributing factors of major industrial incidents
- Identify organisational and cultural warning signs before they escalate
- Apply barrier analysis and bow tie methodology to critical processes
- Recognise normalisation of deviance and complacency in daily operations
- Translate historical lessons into concrete preventive actions
Who should attend
- Process safety engineers
- HSE managers and specialists
- Plant and operations managers
- Risk and incident investigation teams
- Senior technical leadership
Course outline
- 01Anatomy of major industrial incidents and disasters
- 02Organisational and cultural precursors to failure
- 03Barrier analysis and bow tie risk modelling
- 04Normalisation of deviance and complacency in high risk operations
- 05Case study workshop applying lessons to delegates' own sites
- 06Building a preventive action plan from historical learning
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 January to 1 February 2027 | Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 8 to 10 April 2027 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 17 to 19 June 2027 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 6 to 8 July 2027 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |