Accidents are physically and financially traumatic for all parties, in many cases resulting in criminal or civil litigation. Large numbers of slight injury accidents also result in stress, lost productivity and legal claims. Understanding the ‘how' and ‘why' of vehicle accidents, whether on-site or on-road, is key to defining the right policies, products or training to improve the safety of your drivers and vehicles.

TRL's Vehicle Accident Investigation training has been designed to equip health and safety, fleet, and operation managers with the fundamental skills necessary to investigate and understand vehicle incidents, thereby enabling these professionals to base vehicle safety policy, investment and actions on facts.

TRL's 2 day Vehicle Accident Investigation course delivers the skills and knowledge to:

• Capture potentially critical short lived evidence from incident scenes
• Generate a detailed source of evidence, independent of other investigation agencies
• Enable early investigation, decision making and corrective actions
• Support the disciplinary process with evidence 
• Clarify the facts to advise the company's legal position

By helping managers identify the causal and contributory factors behind accidents this training sets a firm basis to deliver best value from safety and training budgets, and ensures that businesses are able to learn the right lessons from fleet vehicle accidents. By undertaking non-invasive inspections of involved vehicles, attending the incident scene/site and identifying and recording relevant evidence, course attendees are provided with the knowledge needed to investigate and interpret an incident scene, and to reach factual conclusions on the basis of firm evidence.

The course is delivered by TRL's team of highly experienced accident investigators at TRL's offices in Berkshire or at client sites as necessary. 

For more information, contact:

Mike Pittman

Senior Investigator

Tel: 01344 770364

Email: mpittman@trl.co.uk