Incident Reporting and Investigation

All councils and other governing boards and committees need to ensure a reporting process is available for all of their people and that they are aware a reporting process is available!

We must take the time to review and learn from them when they happen. It's unrealistic to expect we will always be 100% healthy and safe. Injuries, illnesses, incidents and near misses can - and do - happen. 

Depending on the nature, severity and complexity of the incident, learning from an incident might be as simple as chatting to people afterwards so you can all try to figure out what went wrong - and what to do about it.

Below are guidelines to set up your own incident management process, and associated forms, with more formal notification and investigation processes below that.