3.1 Accident and Incident
Reporting
Policy
All
accidents and incidents with the potential to cause serious harm or damage, and
all accidents involving injury must be reported.
Purpose
To ensure
that injured persons are treated correctly, dangerous situations are made safe,
the health of individuals is not put at risk, corrective and preventative
action is taken, and statutory requirements are fulfilled.
Responsibilities
- Staff responsible for the activity or area
must investigate the accident or incident and take appropriate corrective and
preventative action
- The Health and Safety department ensures
that there are adequate arrangements for accident reporting and investigating
accidents, maintenance of central records, and formal reporting to the Health
& Safety Executive
- Sickness absence resulting from an accident
or work-related ill health condition must be reported to the Health and Safety
department by the individual’s manager on an Accident and Incident Report Form
in addition to normal sickness absence reporting procedures
Procedure and Guidance
- 1. Accidents
and incidents are unplanned or unexpected events which result in or have the
potential to result in damage, injury, health disorder, death, damage to
equipment or property, or interruption to business.
- 2. Anyone
can raise an Accident and Incident Report using either the accident report form
downloadable from the staff website for those staff who do not have access to a
computer, or by logging on to www.rivosafeguard.com and completing the online
accident/incident report.
- 3. Contractors
are responsible for reporting to the Health & Safety Executive any injuries
to their employees or dangerous occurrences arising from their use of their
equipment. All other reportable
incidents will be reported to the Health & Safety Executive by the Head of
Health & Safety at the university.
- 4. The head of department must ensure
that remedial actions are taken and are signed off.
As
long as there are ongoing concerns arising from specific accidents requests for
follow-up actions will be issued by the Health & Safety function to the
head of department for completion and return. The purpose is to identify the final outcome in terms of injury or
damage and to confirm what corrective action has been taken.
