Incidents and accidents
Personnel at HV and MV report incidents and accidents by following the information on HR's work environment page.
Personnel at NT report risk observations and incidents on NT's department page. Occupational injuries/accidents are reported to the nearest manager.
Systematic work environment management allows the opportunity to discover risks before something happens instead of only carrying out measures after illness, incident, or accident. Using a systematic approach, it is possible to discover more of what is important for employee health and makes clear which measures help. All employers must conduct systematic work environment management with the aim of preventing ill health and accidents at work. Compilations of ill health, injuries and incidents are a good basis for enabling proper investigation.
Risk observation
A risk observation means a risk has been observed in the work environment that could cause incidents or accidents if nothing is done. An example could be a blocked emergency exit or protection missing on a machine.
Incident
An incident is an undesirable occurrence or circumstance that could have led to an accident. Perhaps, a mere chance that it was a near-accident in which no one was injured. For example, something heavy fell off a shelf but did not hit anyone. In this case, an ”oops” instead of an ”ouch”.
Serious incident
A serious incident is an occurrence other than an accident posing a danger to life or health. Examples of serious incidents are someone falling from a few meters height without injuring themselves; hanging cargo or similar falling close to someone or where someone could have been; a driver of a vehicle being subjected to laser fire; someone suffering a stab or cut injury from a syringe or similar and there is known or strong suspicion that a patient’s or another person’s blood is infected; a smoke, gas or chemical spill without injuries; or an explosion in a room empty of people at the time. The employer assesses, on a case-by-case basis, whether an incident or injury is so serious that it needs to be reported to the Swedish Work Environment Authority.
Accident
An accident is an undesirable sudden occurrence leading to physical or mental injury. Injuries can be slight or as severe as a fatal accident.
Occupational injury/death
An occupational injury is:
- an injury or illness resulting from an accident or otherwise caused by work.
- an injury that has occurred on the way to or from work.
- a contagious disease resulting from infection at work.
- a contagious disease arising at work when the condition is classified as a danger to society.