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The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that each year there are more than 2.78 million deaths worldwide as a 
result of workplace incidents or work-related diseases. In addition to this it also estimates that there are 374 million non-fatal 
work-related injuries and illnesses per year. The harm caused to individuals and the financial cost to organisations due to injury 
and ill health is immense.
The health and safety regulator for Great Britain, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), estimates that annually there are 
approximately 31 million working days lost, and the cost to the British economy of workplace injuries and ill health is around 
£15 billion per annum.
It is, therefore, extremely important that organisations learn lessons from workplace incidents. The ultimate aim of an incident 
investigation is to prevent recurrence of the same incident or, indeed, a more serious incident happening in the future.
Some compliance obligations (eg, the health and safety management system ISO 45001) also state that incidents must be 
investigated and actions taken to prevent the incident from happening again.
However, over time, HSE Inspectors from the British regulator have observed that incident investigation, in some organisations, 
is not always carried out to the highest standard. This NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation qualification aims 
to equip students with the knowledge, understanding and skills to carry out a solo investigation of a non-complex workplace 
incident; students will also be able to contribute to team incident investigations for large-scale incidents.