Safety and Health Incident Settings

Add safety and health incidents in the Employment > Safety and Health Incidents screen of People.

Safety and health incident settings
Setting	Description
General
Incident Type	The type of incident that occurred.
Location	The location of the incident. By default, the employee’s primary work location is shown.
Filed By	Select the employee who is reporting the incident.
WCB Case Number	(Canada only) Enter the WCB case number.
Case Number	Automatically generated number with which to track and report on the incident.
Privacy Case	Restricts access to the record. Only users with the Safety Health Privacy access authorization can access the record when this checkbox is selected.
Status	The status of the incident. By default, this value is set to Open.
Action	What action is being taken with regard to the incident.
Assigned To	The employee assigned to manage the incident.
Questionable Claim	Indicates whether this is a questionable claim. Options are Yes, No, and Unknown.
Date and Time
Date Opened	The date the incident was created.
Date Closed	The date the incident was closed.
Incident Date	The date of the incident. This date must be on or before the date in the Date Opened field.
Time Began Work	The time that the employee started work on the day of the incident.
Time of Incident	The time that the incident occurred at.
Date Return To Work	The date that the employee returned to work.
Are Days Lost	Indicates whether any workdays were lost because of the incident.
Days Lost	The number of workdays lost because of the incident.
Days Restricted	The number of workdays the employee couldn’t perform their full duties.
Health Details
Injury or Illness Type	Indicate whether the incident is related to injury or illness.
Injury	Specify the injury that occurred, if the incident is related to an injury
Body Part	Specify which body part is injured.
Died	Indicates whether the employee died as a result of the incident.
Date Died	The date the employee died.
Where the Event Occurred	The place where the incident occurred.
Task Being Performed	The task that the employee was performing when the incident occurred.
Object that Caused the Incident	The object that caused the incident.
Actions that Caused the Incident	The actions that led to the incident.
Hospital Information
Hospital Street Name City State / Province Zip / Postal Code	The name and address of the hospital the employee visited.
Doctor	The name of the doctor who attended to the employee in the hospital.
Emergency Room	Indicates whether the employee visited the emergency department of the hospital.
Hospital Overnight	Indicates whether the employee stayed overnight at the hospital.