Early incident reporting is important to provide proper first aid treatment, reduce health risks, and identify hazards to prevent future accidents. Information about injuries, near misses, and first aid incidents should be reported as soon as possible to supervisors, environmental health and safety teams, and occupational health nurses. Reporting allows for timely medical assistance, investigations into causes, and corrections that protect workers from future harm.
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Early incident reporting is important to provide proper first aid treatment, reduce health risks, and identify hazards to prevent future accidents. Information about injuries, near misses, and first aid incidents should be reported as soon as possible to supervisors, environmental health and safety teams, and occupational health nurses. Reporting allows for timely medical assistance, investigations into causes, and corrections that protect workers from future harm.
Early incident reporting is important to provide proper first aid treatment, reduce health risks, and identify hazards to prevent future accidents. Information about injuries, near misses, and first aid incidents should be reported as soon as possible to supervisors, environmental health and safety teams, and occupational health nurses. Reporting allows for timely medical assistance, investigations into causes, and corrections that protect workers from future harm.
Why is it important to report incidents early? Incident and near miss reporting What do I report? enables proper first aid treatment Injury: An incident to the body to be administered where injuries that requires more than first are sustained, reducing the risk of aid. further infection or complication First Aid: An incident to the and assisting in the recovery pro- body that does not require cess. The reporting of incidents seeking medical treatment off and near misses also helps to site. identify hazards that need to be Near Miss: An incident where a rectified or controlled to prevent change of circumstances or accidents from occurring in the timing may have resulted in future. injury or property damage being sustained.
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Who do I report to? Your Supervisor EHS Safe Work Practices Occupational Health Nurse Injuries All injuries, no matter how insignificant they may at first appear, are to be (In this order) reported to the immediate Supervisor, EHS, or Occupational Health Nurse and included in the First Aid Log. Investigation - Investigations are to be conducted by EHS and Supervisors when When do I report? applicable. The extent of the investigation is to be determined by EHS. As soon as it happens, Near Misses - To report near misses, your Supervisor should be contacted. They will regardless of how small the contact EHS to start an investigation. incident.