Incident analysis reporting form

Training employees to properly fill out incident analysis report completely is essential. Depending on the incident s severity, reports may be narrative or documented on the incident analysis forms or checklists. A narrative report contains detailed answers to the following questions (see Figure 12.1) ... 

This section provides information on the personnel who should be involved in data collection and the design of reporting forms. The specific data needs for major incident analyses are discussed, together with the storage and retrieval of data for the purpose of analysis. 

A standard form is a common and useful tool for the relatively minor process incident. Forms tend to steer the investigators thoughts within narrow, limited channels. Forms, therefore, may not be as useful for investigating serious process-related occurrences as they are for minor process incidents. Some companies have increased the effectiveness of reporting forms by printing memory jogger information and questions on the back of the form. Forms can be helpful for capturing cause data in a uniform manner so it can be coded for computer analysis. 

A review of accident, incident and ill-health records will also help with the identification. Other sources of information include safety inspection, survey and audit reports, job or task analysis reports, manufacturers handbooks or data sheets and approved codes of practice and other forms of guidance. 

All the information, whether in accident books or report forms, will need to be analysed so that useful management data can be prepared. Many organizations look at analysis each month and annually. However, where there are very few incidents, quarterly may be sufficient. The health and safety information should be used alongside other business measures and should receive equal status. 

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Five of the 15 forms received require entry of codes for causal factors, incident types, and injury t)q)es. When computer analysis programs first became available, I had been an aggressive promoter of the entiy of causal factor codes for later analysis. That proved to be inappropriate because accurate causal data are often not included in supervisors investigation reports or in insurance claims reports. Now, I recommend that computer-based analysis systems not include provision for causal data entry. They serve analysis purposes quite well for types of accidents, injury types, parts of body injured, and identification data (location, age, job title, etc.). 

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