Report a Hazard or Incident
If an incident (including a near miss) occurs at UniSA it must be reported.
At UniSA, the hazard and incident reporting process is facilitated using the online Hazard / Incident Reporting & Investigation System.
Access is available through the Staff Portal, logging into ‘myUniSA’ using your username and password and clicking on the ‘Report a Hazard or Incident’ link to access one of the following five (5) online report forms:-
|
Hazard: |
a situation or object that has the potential to harm a person, the environment or cause damage to property. Hazards may include, but are not limited to, noisy or unguarded machinery, chemicals, electricity, working at heights, a repetitive task or poorly designed workplace/workstation. |
| Near Miss: |
an incident that could have resulted in injury or illness to a person, danger to health and/or damage to property or the environment but did not. |
| Injury / Illness: |
an incident that causes bodily harm to a person. |
| Fatality: |
an incident that led to the death of a person. |
| Event: | A significant incident involving multiple people where injury/illness has not occurred or is not known at the time. An event may have duration where circumstances/effects occur over a period of time. ‘Finish’ time of an event is determined as when the health, safety and welfare of any person is no longer at risk. Some examples include: an uncontrolled explosion; fire; flood; food poisoning; structural collapse; natural disaster. |