Summary

The Incident Categories entity groups the severity of the injury or the extent of property damage sustained into categories.

Note: These codes are used in the Incident Category Code pick list on the Incidents - Details (i) tab page.

Minor incidents

An incident can occur that does not harm an employee physically but results in property damage and/or loss of productivity. This information is still important and requires recording.

Examples

• Near miss (no harm or damage)
• Minor incident (damage to plant)
• Serious (harm to employee, major damage to plant)

Procedure

To add an Incident Category record, switch to Edit mode and press Insert. Incident Categories are simple code and description records.

Analysing Incidents

By categorising each incident record, you can analyse the ratio of minor to serious incidents, develop a trend analysis, and produce reports to monitor your workplace incidents.