Reporting Incidents and Accidents
The procedure below should be followed in the event of an incident or accident in IMBS:
- Treat injured person as appropriate and ensure the safety of others
- Injured person to inform supervisor or manager as soon as possible
- Injured person to complete Massey Accident or Incident Report Form, available in all first aid boxes, within 24 hours of incident and give to supervisor or manager
- Supervisor (usually academic staff member) to forward report to Pat Munro (PA to HOI) within 24 hours of incident/accident
- Supervisor and Safety Adviser (Neville Honey?) investigate incident/accident and record results
- In the event of a serious harm injury (see definitions below) Safety Adviser contacts OSH as soon as possible and completes and forwards to OSH a Serious Harm Report within 7 days of the injury. The area should be left secured but undisturbed and work ceased until OSH indicates it may resume. Only HOI (or delegate) to make any statements to the media.
- Accident/incident reports should be completed for any Occupational Overuse Syndrome (OOS)-type symptoms or gradual process type injuries. For information see http://hrs.massey.ac.nz/OOS_staff_palmy_version.pdf
- Accident/incident reports should be completed by Lab Safety Reps for:
- reporting people who are using equipment they are not trained to use
- reporting equipment that is malfunctioning due to heat
Definitions:
Accident
means an event that causes any person to be harmed
Incident
an incident is an event that in slightly different circumstances would have caused injury.
Minor Injury
no medical treatment required by a GP and no time taken from employment duties.
Moderate Injury
medical treatment required by a GP and/or time taken from employment duties because of the injury.
Serious Injury
(From Schedule 1 of the Health & Safety in Employment Act 1992)
Any of the following conditions that amounts to or results in permanent loss of bodily function, or temporary severe loss of bodily function: respiratory disease, noise-induced hearing loss, neurological disease, cancer, dermatological disease, communicable disease, musculoskeletal disease, illness caused by exposure to infected material, decompression sickness, poisoning, vision impairment, chemical or hot metal burn of eye, penetrating wound of eye, bone fracture, laceration, crushing.
Amputation of body part.
Burns requiring referral to a Specialist, Registered Medical Practitioner or Specialist OutPatient Clinic.
Loss of consciousness from lack of oxygen.
Loss of consciousness, or acute illness requiring treatment by a registered medical practitioner from absorption, inhalation, or ingestion of any substance.
Any harm that causes the person harmed to be hospitalised for a period of 48 hours or more commencing within seven days of the harm's occurrence.
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