For accidents where there is serious harm, OSH must be notified as soon as possible after the accident has occurred and a written Serious Accident Notification must be submitted within 7 days.
Accidents involving non-serious harm or accidents that, in other circumstances, could have resulted in harm need a Non Serious harm accident report to be completed.
As the investigation continues, various elements or aspects are investigated. When looking for evidence of 'what happened' in an incident, write down a list of the types of 'nouns' involved. For example, the location, the injured person, the task they were doing at the time, witnesses, the time, etc. Each of these elements is then investigated separately to see what facts come to light.
A list of these elements and findings may be recorded if required in the database or, alternatively, you may wish to record them on paper instead and transfer the findings and summary to the database later.