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2Employee Incident Report
Incident
Public Services Health & Safety Association 4950 Yonge Street, Suite 902, Toronto ON M2N 6K1 416-250-2131 or 1-877-250-7444 www.pshsa.ca
Employee Incident Report
Incident
Public Services Health & Safety Association 4950 Yonge Street, Suite 902, Toronto ON M2N 6K1 416-250-2131 or 1-877-250-7444 www.pshsa.ca
Instructions for Completion
ORIGINAL to be kept in “Employee Incident
Report” file in H&S area/division
Employee Incident Report
2ND COPY to injured worker’s supervisor
The purpose of this report is to:
3RD COPY to injured worker’s occupational
health or employee file
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Collect factual data relating to the occurrence of a workplace injury
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Collect data for completion of the WSIB report
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Provide a systematic means to record incidents, document the results of investigations and note how, when and what corrective
action will be taken
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Help to ensure the provision of prompt medical treatment
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Assist in the determination of the causative factors related to the incident
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Systematically collect factual data for statistical records
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Guide the investigator in conducting an e ective investigation
NOTE: Shaded information is considered confidential and should not be shared with the joint health and safety committee.
Types of Incidents - Definitions
Slip/Trip
The person either slips or trips but does not fall.
Struck/Caught
Overexertion
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An incident in which a person has been struck abruptly or
An incident is one in which a person puts excessive strain on
forcefully by some object in motion (e.g., box falls o shelf,
some part of his/her body (e.g., an employee strains his/her back
employee jabs needle into finger, person pushing cart runs
or some other part of the body).
into someone) or a person is contacted non-forcefully by
some substance or agent in motion that has an injury-upon-
Harmful Substances/Environmental
contact characteristic (such as being splashed by hot or
An incident in which the employee is exposed to harmful
corrosive solutions).
condi¬tions (e.g., toxic gases, fumes or vapours; toxic airborne
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An incident in which a person strikes abruptly or forcefully
particles; extremes of heat or cold; oxygen deficient atmospheres;
some stationary object in his/her surroundings (e.g., nurse
radioac¬tive radiation; intense light brightnesses, infectious
strikes his/her leg against the crank of a bed) or comes into
diseases, blood/blood-stained body fluids, moulds/spores).
contact, non-forcefully, with some stationary substance or
agent that has an injury-upon-contact characteristic (such as
Assault
electrical shock).
An incident in which the employee is subjected to an untoward
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An incident in which a person is:
action by a patient or member of the public (e.g., a patient bites
a. trapped in some type of enclosure or a part of a person’s body
or strikes an employee).
is caught in some type of opening (e.g., a person is caught in
an elevator or locked into a refrigerated room)
Repetition
b. caught on some protruding object (e.g., a person’s clothing
An incident that develops over a period of time due to the
gets hooked onto a handle or a person catches his/her hand
repetitive nature of the task being carried out (e.g., pipetting,
on a sharp edge)
keyboarding).
c. pinched, crushed or otherwise caught between either a
moving object and a stationary object or between two or
Fire/Explosion
more moving objectives (e.g., a person jams his/her fingers
An incident in which the employee is subjected to a fire or
between a wheeled cart and doorway).
explosion in the workplace.
Fall
Motor Vehicle Incidents
A fall on the same level on which a person was standing or
An incident in which the employee is involved in a motor vehicle
walking, or when a person falls to below the level on which
incident during the course of his/her work activities.
he/she was standing or walking.
Direct Causes - Definitions
Basic Causes - Definitions
Physical/Environmental
Job Factors
Contributing conditions such as machinery/equipment,
Work procedures, purchasing, design, training, engineering
house¬keeping, physical agents, chemical agents, personal
controls, etc.
protective equipment, temperature (heat/cold), etc.
Personal Factors
Personal
Physical restrictions, lack of training, motivation, inadequate
Contributing actions such as unauthorized equipment use,
capability, etc.
improper body motion, working at unsafe speeds.
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