General Incident Report

Incidents are bound to happen. Workplace, office, hospital, school, construction sites, and in every other field of work incidents are reported. Incidents could be minor or major but reporting, investigating, and tackling those incidents must be the goal to avoid similar occurring in the future. It is recommended that an incident is reported as soon as possible or is reported within 24 hours of occurrence so that suitable steps to curb the damage can be taken. Incident reporting is generally carried out in a standard reporting format capturing details about the incident, witness, and the reporter.

This article will discuss reports and summary of incident reporting from varied working sectors. Instructions, guidelines, examples, templates, and forms pertaining to incident reporting are also covered in this article.

General Incident Report Examples & Templates

1.Security Incident Report Template

It is mandatory in all organizations to report a security incident. Employees, guards, or any other concerned individual can report a security incident to the company. Companies investigate the incident and take the necessary steps to maintain a peaceful work environment. This document is an editable security incident reporting template. Download and customize this template for incident reporting in your company.

2. Construction Incident Report Template

A construction site is one of the fields where maximum incidents are reported due to nature of work and instruments used. This file is a template of detailed incident reporting at construction sites. The five-page template is divided into four sections viz. contractor details, incident details, details of the work activity, and information on the person injured. This editable file can be directly used for incident reporting in a construction company.

3. Employee Incident Report Template

A report by the employee about an accident or any other concerned abnormal or unethical practice in a company is termed as employee incident reporting. This template is a standard incident reporting form for the employees. One can conveniently add organization details and customize this form. This report can be printed and received in a digital format from the employees.

4. Incident Report Form Template

Are you finding it difficult to prepare an incident report form for your organization? The above incident reporting form template is at your rescue. This template can be downloaded in your preferred file format. Add company details and logo. Customize the contents if required and the form is ready to print. You can also conveniently store this file on the cloud and share it on a drive.

5. Incident Report Template

The above is a three-page editable template on brief incident reporting. The template comes with a cover page to add company logo & details. Incident reporting is carried out by selecting the appropriate answer checkbox. It also provides decent space to briefly describe the incident and a separate page for office use. It is a general format and can be modified as required.

6. Free Incident Report Letter In Office

Incidents are reported by witnesses and also by the individuals involved in the incident. This file is a template of incident reporting by an individual involved in an incident and requesting the manager to investigate the same. It is in general format and provides necessary instruction in brackets to add suitable text for completing the report. This can be used by any individual intending to report an incident.

7. Free Incident Report Letter In Hospital

Hospitals demand incident report from doctors, nurses, and staff involved in a critical medical incident that occurred during a patient’s treatment. Such reports are submitted by all the individuals associated with the case which helps in a thorough investigation to avoid similar incidents in future. This file is one such template of incident reporting for hospital employees & staff in an editable format.

8. Free Incident Report Letter in Workplace

An incident report is investigated and with the final investigation outcome, managers take necessary steps regarding the same. After the report is closed and the issue has resolved a letter including the reported incident, investigation and the undertaken preventive steps is generated by the concerned authority and addressed to the policymakers of the company. This editable file is an example of one such incident report letter in the workplace.

9. Customer Accident Incident Report

Customers visiting a plant or a company sometimes meet with accidents. This file is a PDF document on customer accident incident reporting. Such reporting is carried out by witnesses and the concerned employee who invites or deals with the customers. It is a one-page non-editable report with a standard reporting format.

10. Slip & Fall Incident Report

This PDF document is a standard incident reporting form for slip & fall incidents in a store. The document has a basic format and captures intricate details for the investigation. The form is divided into six sections viz. incident information, claimant information, bodily injury, witnesses, investigation, and other information. It is a general form and can be used by any store/organization.

11. General Injury Incident Report

Employers are legally bounded by law to provide a method for reporting injuries and other harmful occurrences which should be investigated and responded appropriately. Hence employer issues injury incident report form for employees to report such incidents. This form is an ideal template segregated into different sections for precision reporting of the incident.

12. Sample Medical Incident Report Form

Passengers often face medical incidents during travelling. This form is a sample medical incident reporting form to be filled by the airline staff on board, during the occurrence of the incident. Airlines investigate such reports to provide better services and plan necessary health care facilities for the passengers. This file is a general template and can be used by any airline for medical incident reporting.

13. Individual Accident Incident Report

This file is an example of the general individual accident/Incident report form issued by the U. S. Department of Energy. It is a three-page digital detailed form with a checkbox and detailed answer type questions. One can explore this form to prepare an efficient individual incident form.

14. Employee Accident Incident Report

The above file is a comprehensive accident incident reporting form. It includes reporting by employee and witness. Incident reporting follows the standard procedure of questioning. Additionally, this file also contains the supervisors’ investigation report, report to work, and report of the work plan template. Claim status form and return work tracking template is also included in the file.

15. Incident Reporting Guideline

Incident reporting is done globally in different formats. Incident reporting should be cleverly done so that no facts or details about the incidents are missed out. This file is a seventy-one-page guideline on incident reporting published by the Australian Border Force. It covers different kinds of incident reporting and provides guidelines on the reporting of the same.

16. Air Accident Incident Report Form

Flights face different problems mid-air. Such incidents can cause accidents and must be thoroughly investigated and resolved. Hence airlines and airports issue an air accident incident report form. This file is one such example of a similar form issued by the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Nigeria.