Health, Safety and SecurityLearning from Major Industrial Incidents
Some of the world's costliest safety failures shared common warning signs that went unheeded, and in almost every case somebody inside the organisation knew enough to prevent it. This course examines why that knowledge did not reach a decision. Delegates work through major industrial incidents, including African cases where the material allows, tracing each from the technical failure back through the organisational decisions that permitted it. Recurring patterns are drawn out: normalisation of deviance, production pressure, degraded barriers and the drift that makes an unsafe condition ordinary. The distinction between occupational and process safety indicators is covered, since good injury figures have preceded catastrophic events. The course closes on applying these lessons to your own operation and on the warnings currently being tolerated there.
Course objectives
- Trace an incident from technical failure back to organisational decisions
- Recognise normalisation of deviance in a working environment
- Identify production pressure and degraded barriers as precursors
- Distinguish occupational from process safety indicators
- Explain how good injury figures can precede a catastrophe
- Detect drift before an unsafe condition becomes ordinary
- Apply the lessons to warnings currently tolerated in your operation
Who should attend
- Process safety engineers
- HSE managers and specialists
- Plant and operations managers
- Risk and incident investigation teams
- Senior technical leadership
Course outline
- 01Somebody always knew enough
- 02Case studies and their technical failures
- 03The organisational decisions behind them
- 04Normalisation of deviance
- 05Production pressure and degraded barriers
- 06Occupational against process safety indicators
- 07Drift and how conditions become ordinary
- 08Applying the lessons to your own operation
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 to 12 February 2027 | Maseru, Lesotho | Classroom | R14,950 per delegate | Register Now |
| 24 to 26 February 2027 | Lusaka, Zambia | Classroom | USD 995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 8 to 10 March 2027 | Windhoek, Namibia | Classroom | R14,950 per delegate | Register Now |