Information on how and when to report an accident or incident Unfortunately accidents happen. If you have an accident, please go and see a first aider, Who Where Located Email Margit Demeczky Admin office margit.demeczky@ed.ac.uk Magda Malec Wash-up mmalec@ed.ac.uk Sarah Caughey Lab management office Sarah.caughey@ed.ac.uk Catherine Duff C3.03 Catherine.Duff@ed.ac.uk Mark Miller E3.06 mark.miller@ed.ac.uk If you have an accident or near miss and once you have received first aid, you are expected to report it (Home | Accident/Incident Reporting (ed.ac.uk)). It is important to report near misses as it indicates that the RA in place for a particular procedure needs to be updated to prevent an accident. After you have filled out the form, you will receive an email from the H&S department asking you to review your RA for the activity you were doing to see if additional controls are required. If you need to amend the RA please ask Sarah or Cathy for the appropriate form, review and amend the RA send them back to be reviewed and uploaded to the RA folder. Note For any technical difficulties with the Accident reporting form, please contact incident.reporting@ed.ac.uk or call 0131 651 4255. This article was published on 2024-03-19
