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Incident Notification & Reporting. Incident Notification and Reporting. Office of Engineering Safety Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) & The Dwight Look College of Engineering. “A safe, healthful, and secure environment for scholarship and research.”. Key Concepts.
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Incident Notification & Reporting Incident Notification and Reporting Office of Engineering Safety Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)& The Dwight Look College of Engineering “A safe, healthful, and secure environment for scholarship and research.”
Key Concepts • Types of Environmental Health & Safety Incidents • Notify Your Supervisor… • Injury or Illness at Work • Workers Compensation Insurance • WCI “Employers First Report of Injury or Illness” form • Office of Engineering Safety • TEES Employees • TAMU Employees • Non-Employee Students and Visitors
Environmental Health, Safety & Security(EH & S) Incidents, include: • Accident, Injury, Illness • Crisis, Disaster • Environmental issues • Fire, Explosion • Spill, Release (chemical, HazMat, etc) • Significant Near-Miss • Security Concerns • Other …
Incident Notification Protocol • Notify Your supervisor or Deptartment/Division Head ASAP ! • Within 24 hrs of incident occurrence, notify: • Engineering Program Office (EPO) • Office of Engineering Safety (EH&S) • Req’d for TEES & COE investigation to: • Determine root causes • Identify controls to reduce risk & preventrecurrence • This protocol is required by… • TEES Rule, 34.07.99.E1Notification In Event of Emergency or Newsworthy Event • System Regulation 34.07, Crisis Management • The Engineering Safety Plan (Est. at Feb-1996; current revision at FY-2008)
What to do if a person gets injured?(TEES Employees) • File WCI “Employer’s First Report of Injury and Illness” form with TEES Personnel Services, within 24 hours1407 William D. Fitch Parkway, College Station, TX 77845 3467 TAMU Fax: (979) 458-7720 • Required by: • TAMUS - Office of Risk Management • Texas Workers Compensation Insurance Division • MUST be on file with TX-WCI within 8 days ! • What does it do? • Initiates a workers compensation insurance claim! • Does NOT initiate incident investigation!
What to do if a person gets injured?(TAMU Employees & Non-Employees) • File the WCI “Employers First Report of Injury or Illness” form from TAMU Human Resources for: • TAMU (university-only) Employees • Non-Employee Students & Visitors(Note: this form is different for TEES Employees • Should be completed by the person’s immediate supervisor and faxed within 24 hours of the injury/illness (with the Witness Statement, if available) to:TAMUWorkers’ Compensation Office (WCO) Fax: (979) 847-8546 • Provide the employee with the 3-page handout titled Injured Worker Rights & Responsibilities.
In An Emergency!!! • TAMU Emergency Medical Services or Police • From a campus phone, dial 9-911 immediately • Or, direct dial 845-2345 • From cell phone or non-campus phone, dial: 911 • For Maintenance Emergencies, dial: 845-4311 • TAMU Emergency Phone Numbers — Web Page: http://www.tamu.edu/00/data/emerg.html
Office of Engineering Safety • Environmental Health, Safety & Security Services • http://engineering.tamu.edu/safety/
Prepared by: http://engineering.tamu.edu/safety/
Incident Notification & Reporting Incident Notification and Reporting Office of Engineering Safety Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)& The Dwight Look College of Engineering “A safe, healthful, and secure environment for scholarship and research.”
