Project

Learning from Incidents - a social approach to reducing incidents in the workplace is a project undertaken by the Caledonian Academy in cooperation with partners from the energy industry. The project will investigate and develop new approaches to enhancing learning from health and safety incidents in the workplace. The research will be conducted in 2 real-life testbeds.

Learning from Incidents should be embedded in the culture of organisations. The premise of this study is that incidents will be reduced by embedding learners into a culture where continuous learning is promoted.

By following a participatory Change Laboratory methodology, workers, in collaboration with the researcher, will develop a deep understanding of why incidents have occurred and how they can be prevented in the future. Applying deep learning into practice will help develop a safer workplace environment and create a generative organisation.

Aims of the project:

• Explore ways of improving learning from incidents at the workplace
• To transfer learning from incidents to the workplace through a participatory methodology
• To achieve better HSE results by promoting deep and active learning

(view Methodology page)