Title Page

  • Document No.

  • Brief description - e.g, minor injury, near miss, serious incident etc.

  • Client / Site / Project

  • Report completed on

  • Prepared by - full name

  • Location

Report

Accident/Incident/Near Miss Details - the situation

  • Date & Time

  • Location
  • Priority

  • What type of situation are you reporting?

  • Name of on-duty supervisor at time of the situation you are reporting?

  • Is immediate medical attention required?

  • If the situation involves a fatality.

  • Notify emergency services immediately and do not disturb the incident scene unless it is necessary to prevent further injuries of other parties and it is SAFE FOR YOU TO DO SO.

  • Notify Theo Smolenaers on Ph: 0417 496 082 AFTER contacting emergency services

  • Is the situation notifiable to SafeWork NSW?

  • Notify Theo Smolenaers on Ph: 0417 496 082 who will contact SafeWork NSW

Describe What Happened

  • Describe what happened. Please be detailed but state only facts.

  • What were the weather / environmental conditions at the time of the incident?

Record Evidence and Information

People involved

  • Please document all people involved in this incident, including yourself (the person reporting the incident). Click on the down arrow next to Person 1 and then click on + Person to add up to 2 more people. If there are more people involved create an additional report.

  • Person

Person 1

  • Full Name

  • Contact phone number

  • What is this person's relationship to the situation? (select all that apply)

  • Has this person sustained an injury?

Injury Details

  • Type of injury or illness? (select all that apply)

  • Parts of body affected? (select all that apply)

  • What was the cause of this injury or illness?

Person 2

  • Is there another person involved?

  • Full Name

  • Contact phone number

  • What is this person's relationship to the situation? (select all that apply)

  • Has this person sustained an injury?

Injury Details

  • Type of injury or illness? (select all that apply)

  • Parts of body affected? (select all that apply)

  • What was the cause of this injury or illness?

Person 3

  • Is there another person involved?

  • Full Name

  • Contact phone number

  • What is this person's relationship to the situation? (select all that apply)

  • Has this person sustained an injury?

Injury Details

  • Type of injury or illness? (select all that apply)

  • Parts of body affected? (select all that apply)

  • What was the cause of this injury or illness?

Accident Details

  • What caused the accident?

  • How did the accident occur? Describe what happened.

  • What action did you take?

  • Who did you advise of the accident?

  • Does further action need to be taken?

  • Who needs to take further action?

Near Miss Details

  • Did a near miss occur?

  • Describe how the near-miss occurred.

  • What did you do about it?

  • Who did you report it to?

  • Did you advise other workers in the vicinity that the near-miss occurred?

  • Who did you advise of the near-miss?

  • What did you advise others to do?

Corrective Actions

  • Are corrective/further actions required with regard to this incident?

  • Please add any corrective actions to the appropriate questions above before completing this incident investigation

  • Have all required corrective actions been added as Actions to this inspection?

Root Cause Analysis / Contributing Factors

  • What were the contributing factors to this incident occurring? (select all that apply)

  • A Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is the process of determining the cause of an incident. It requires consideration of all the factors that may have contributed to this incident occurring and deeply understanding the underlying cause. One tactic to determine this is through asking "Why?" five times, to uncover the core of a problem.

  • Has the root cause of this issue been able to be identified?

  • Why is the root cause for this issue unable to be identified at this time?

  • How likely is this incident to reoccur in future?

Sign Off

  • Further action/follow-up/investigation required?

  • Name of person/people to follow up

  • Name of Reporter

  • Name of Investigator(s) (may be different to the reporter).

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