The Incident module is available in the Safety and Environmental suites. Use the Incident module to record information about an incident and to track actions taken to correct or prevent a similar incident. An incident may involve one or more employees, or other incident types not related to employees including environmental releases, contained spills, unpermitted discharges, property damage, near misses, or motor vehicle accidents.
The module also tracks and automatically emails corrective actions assigned to the event. Additional details can include witness statements and images related to the incident, cause analysis, risk assessment, environmental release, related motor vehicle accidents, and user-defined questionnaires.
When accessed from the Environmental suite, you can record details of releases, spill information, unpermitted discharges, and other information related to stakholder reporting. The module allows users to save information regarding agency contact and communication as well as to identify the assets involved in a an incident. Reports are available to analyze incident cause, risk, reportable quantities, and assets affected. Environmental incidents can be shared with Safety to have a single record for an incident involving injuries and releases.
When accessed from the Safety suite, you can record details of injury or illness and/or lost work time. For incidents resulting in lost time or medical care, relevant information is transferred to the applicable Employers' First Report of Injury for North American and UK jurisdictions and to the OSHA 301 form (US jurisdictions). Detailed statistical information is captured on each incident including the nature of the injury or illness, body site affected, cause of the incident, any contributing factors, and the activity the employee was performing at the time of the incident. An incident counts report analyzes this data in either graphic or tabular reports. Other standard incident reports include the OSHA counts and OSHA rates reports as well as the OSHA 300 and 300A.
Standard Employers' Reports can be filed directly on-line or by transferring data from the Incident Reporting program including the date and hour of the injury or illness and details relating to the cause of the injury or disease. Once filed, the record can be completed by entering the employer's name and earnings and claims information, printed and sent to the appropriate Workers' Compensation (WC), Third Party Administration (TPA), Insurance Carrier or used internally for analysis and control. When the claim number is received, it is entered directly on the form. The module includes reports permitting the generation of detailed and summary costs by claim and/or firm, and total work hours lost by geographic and/or administrative unit.
This module also permits on-line filing of standard return to work forms and injury recurrence forms, and manual and electronic entry of cost data by type of payment including any credits received and calculated tax deductions. It also reconciles employers' advances and payments against claims.
Cority provides functionality to record FRA (Federal Railroad Administration) information for an incident and generate FRA forms 54, 55, 55a, 57, 97, and 98. Related fields must be added to custom form layouts. Please contact your system administrator for further information.
This chapter explains the Incident workflow (see The Incident Workflow), and how to:
complete the incident report (see Entering Details of an Incident)
complete the employer’s report (see Completing the Employers Report)
track cost information (see Tracking Cost Information)
complete OSHA summary reports (see Completing the OSHA 301 Report and OSHA Electronic Submissions).
review and post event reports submitted by standalone users (see Reviewing Events)
To see the look-up tables used by this module and the reports available, see Module Reference. There may also be system settings that affect your use of this module; for more information, see Changing Your System Settings.