Incident Report

Incident / Hazard Report Form

Safety in the workplace is a shared concern between all parties. In the first instance seek medical treatment where required - even if you are unsure !
Following any incident or finding a hazard you should immediately report the incident or hazard to your employer or company supervisor, and also to AusDigi, or within 24 hours if this is not possible.
If equipment is found to be faulty, unsafe or in poor condition, this must be flagged immediately and removed from service provided this can be done safely. If electrical, turn it off at the fuse before removing or touching the equipment and/or contact an electrical engineer to remove the equipment safely and have it tagged out for you.
For other hazards, ensure you photograph the hazard, include it in your SWMS and take 5 observations and report the problem immediately.
NB : A separate form should be filled out by each and every person involved in an incident or affected by hazards.

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Follow Up

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Resolution

Incident Investigation Process Guide

1. Establish the facts of the incident, including:
- What happened?
- When and where did it happen?
- What task was being done?
- Who was involved?
- Were there any witnesses?

2. Gather all necessary background information, for example:
- maintenance records
- safe work procedures
- instructions manuals
- training records.

3. Consider all the potential contributing factors:
- Environment: Did environmental conditions (e.g. light, noise, floor surfaces) contribute to the incident?
- Equipment /materials: Did anything about the equipment, materials, tools etc (e.g. equipment failures, missing guards) contribute to the incident?
- Work systems: Was there something about the system that contributed (e.g. hazard not identified, known hazard not addressed)?
- People: Was there something the workers, supervisors or contractors did that contributed to the incident (e.g. poor communication, being tired or rushing to finish on time)?

4. Determine the primary cause/s of the incident, that is, those which if they hadn’t occurred then the incident wouldn’t have occurred. Ask yourself “Would the incident have happened if….?”

5. Identify the root cause / system failures that underlie the primary cause/s and contributing factors. One simple technique for identifying the root cause is the ‘Five Whys’.
This technique involves asking yourself ‘Why did this happen?’ and continuing to ask ‘Why’ for each response until you reach a conclusion that does not generate another ‘why’ and the underlying cause becomes apparent.

6. The final and most import step in any investigation is to take action to fix all the factors that contributed to the incident, starting with the primary cause/s and working through each of the contributing and underlying causes.