Incident
An Incident in Jobsafe is defined as an event that a person was directly involved in. The outcome of this event can range from serious injury - no injury at all.
Lost Time Injury
Lost Time Injuries (LTIs) are those occurrences that result in a fatality, permanent disability or that causes the affected person to take time off. Time off can include one day, one shift, or even more lost time from work due to a work-related injury, illness or disease. It does not include the shift or day on which the LTI occurs or arises.
Medical Treatment Injury
A MTI arises when an employee is required to visit a Medical Professional (other than a Company On-site Nurse for first aid treatment, or a Doctor, solely for diagnostic purposes) for treatment resulting from a work-related injury, illness or disease.
First Aid Injuries
First Aid – Minor injuries that are treated on site using first aid and/or a Doctor solely for diagnostic or first aid purposes.
Unable to Identify
If you have an accident that may be a LTI, MTI or other but need to investigate further - you can use this option (You have 24 hrs to send the findings in).
Report Only
Report only injuries are those injuries where no treatment was required.
Near Miss
This is defined as an event taking place which missed an individual. E.g. being a passenger in a car that almost crashed.
Hazard
An object or area on a site that may cause injury if a person interacts with it.
Safety Observations
The new legislation shifts the focus from monitoring and recording health and safety incidents to proactively identifying and managing risks so everyone is safer at work.
Safety Observations fit this role perfectly. Essentially the companies “Safety Radar” it allows people associated with the business to log a range of observations usually categorized into four brackets:
- Unsafe Behaviour - A person doing something that is unsafe by safety standards or internal workplace culture - this could possibly lead to a Near Miss or Incident if not looked into or corrected.
- Safe Behaviour - An observation of good safety practice. This can be logged in order to give Health and Safety Managers a view of safe habits being formed and instruction being followed.
- Unsafe Condition -An area or machine that is looking unsafe to the observer. This may be a Hazard once investigated further.
- Safe Condition - Any area that has had safety gear implemented in a professional and extensive way creating an ideal safe working environment.
The logging of this data will not only give the company key data on what people are thinking, seeing and doing but enable them to determine ways of better aligning these behaviors to improve safety.
KPI's can be applied to encourage Safety Observations to be logged and increase awareness of health & safety in their workplace.
Notifiable Event
Notifiable event (NZ-HSWA 2015) means any of the following events that arise from work:
- notifiable death of a person (a person has been killed as a result of work); or
- notifiable incident – Did the incident expose anyone (worker or any other person) to a serious risk to that person’s health or safety
- notifiable injury or illness - did anyone receive a serious injury/illness that requires immediate medical treatment, hospitalisation, and/or medical treatment (excluding first aid) within 48 hours of exposure. It will also include any infection to which the carrying out of work is a significant contributing factor.
YES to any of the above means your event is likely to be “Notifiable”
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To be sure, contact WorkSafe on 0800 030 040 as soon as possible