Summary

• Does your organisation currently maintain an accident register to record all accidents in the workplace?
• Who is responsible for maintaining the integrity of the accident register (who monitors and analyses the information it contains)?
• Does your organisation record both incidents (accidents that do not involve harm to people) and injury related accidents?
• What level of information is recorded in the register for incidents?
• What level of information is recorded in the register for accidents?
• Are all incidents investigated and who would normally do this?
• Are all accidents recorded and who would normally do this?
• Does your organisation record the amount of lost time involved for each incident or accident?
• Does the lost time measure include only the employees directly involved or does the total also include other types of lost time? For example, investigators time, relievers time or first aiders time.
• Are all accidents and incidents categorised (near miss, property damage, interruption to process, minor harm serious harm, fatal)?
• Does your organisation usually associate accidents with hazards?
• For injured employees, what details need to be recorded (injury type, body part, cause, equipment/process involved, treatment)?
• Does your organisation need to record that compensation has been claimed as result of an accident?
• What level of detail is required to be recorded for compensation claims (acceptance status, claim status, transfer date, estimated costs)?
• Does your organisation monitor OHS/OSH key performance indicators such as accident frequency and accident severity?
• What other measures does your organisation utilise to monitor effective performance of their Health and Safety programme?