Create A New Hope Church Incident Record
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Nature & seriousness of the incident?
Near Miss Incident/Hazard - An incident occurred, no one got hurt but there was the potential for an injury
- A Incident resulting in injury
- B Near miss incident
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How serious was the injury?
First Aid - injury was treated by a first aider onsite
Medical Treatment - injury required treatment by a medical practitioner
Immediate Medical Treatment - injury required by emergency service treatment e.g. Ambulance
- A First Aid
- B Medical Treatment
- C Immediate Medical Treatment
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Incident Details
Provide as much details as you can and describe what happened?
Include the name of any particular chemical, product, process you were following or equipment involved.
E.g. fell off step ladder used to access shelving in chair storage room
Include the name of any particular chemical, product, process you were following or equipment involved.
E.g. fell off step ladder used to access shelving in chair storage room
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How was the injury sustained:
How exactly was the injury or disease sustained? Include the name of any chemical, product, process or equipment involved
e.g. hit head on shelf when climbing the ladder, pain in neck after sitting at workstation for long duration
e.g. hit head on shelf when climbing the ladder, pain in neck after sitting at workstation for long duration
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Nature of Injury
- A Fractures [excluding of vertebral column]
- B Fracture of vertebral column with or without mention of spinal cord lesion
- C Dislocations
- D Sprains and strains of joints and adjacent muscles [ including acute trauma sprains and strains only]
- E Intracranial injury, including concussion
- F Internal injury of chest, abdomen and pelvis
- G Traumatic amputation, including enucleation of eye [loss of eyeball]
- H Open wound not involving traumatic amputation
- I Superficial injury
- J Contusion with intact skin surface and crushing injury, excluding those with fracture
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Foreign body on external eye, in ear or nose or in respiratory, digestive or reproductive systems [including choking] -
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Burns - M Injuries to nerves and spinal cord without evidence of spinal bone injury
- N Poisoning and toxic effects of substances
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Effects of weather, exposure, air pressure and other external causes [including bends, drowing, electrocution] - P Multiple injuries [only to be used where no principal injury can be identified]
- Q Damage to artificial aids
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R Other and unspecified injuries
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Location on the body of injury/disease:
- A Eye
- B Ear
- C Face
- D Head [other than eye, ear and face]
- E Neck
- F Back
- G Trunk [other than back and excluding internal organs]
- H Shoulders and arms
- I Hands and fingers
- J Hips and legs
- K Feet and toes
- L Internal organs [located in the trunk]
- M Multiple locations [more than one of the above]
- N General and unspecified locations
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Mechanism of injury/disease:
- A Falls from a height
- B Falls on the same level [including trips and slips]
- C Hitting objects with a part of the body
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Exposure to mechanical vibration - E Being hit by moving objects
- F Exposure to sharp, sudden sound
- G Long term exposure to sounds
- H Exposure to variations in pressure [other than sound]
- I Repetitive movement with low muscle loading
- J Other muscular stress
- K Contact with electricity
- L Contact or exposure to heat and cold
- M Exposure to radiation
- N Single contact with chemical or substance [excludes insect and spider bites and stings]
- O Long term contact with chemical or substance
- P Other contact with chemical or substance [includes insect and spider bites and stings]
- Q Contact with, or exposure to, biological factors
- R Exposure to mental stress factors
- S Slide or cave-in
- T Vehicle accident
- U Other and multiple mechanisms of injury
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V Unspecified mechanisms of injury
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Is this incident a Notifiable Event?
An incident is notifiable if it arises out of the conduct of a business or undertaking and results in the death, serious injury or serious illness of a person, or involves a dangerous incident
Refer to Safe Work Australia's Incident Notification Information Sheet
https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/doc/incident-notification-fact-sheet
Refer to Safe Work Australia's Incident Notification Information Sheet
https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/doc/incident-notification-fact-sheet
- A Yes
- B No
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Is Site Preservation required:
A site where a notifiable event has occurred must be preserved until an inspector arrives or directs otherwise. Requirements to preserve a site only apply to the area where the notifiable event occurred-not the whole workplace.
- A Yes
- B No
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Date of Written Notification
If the regulator asks - written notification must be made within 48 hours of the request. Falling to report a "notifiable event" is an offence and penalties apply.
Please answer in this format: DD/MM/YYYY
Please answer in this format: DD/MM/YYYY
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Identify immediate causes
e.g. the ladder was broken: List immediate causes that appear to have directly contributed to the incident e.g. unsafe acts & conditions.
Consider: What? Why? How? Who? When? Was there compliance with procedures, training, supervision, use of PPE, operation of plant / equipment, environmental factors
Consider: What? Why? How? Who? When? Was there compliance with procedures, training, supervision, use of PPE, operation of plant / equipment, environmental factors
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Identify root causes
List the root causes - underlying basic causes. These typically involve safety systems. e.g. domestic step ladders were in use at the workplace, there was no safe work procedure for safe use of ladders, there was no process to inspect condition of ladders on a regular basis, there was no staff training regarding safe use of ladders
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