Posted By Ian J B
Morning all..

Hoping from some collective wisdom if possible. I work at a training centre where, for two afternoons a week our delegates go either climbing or caving. Whilst we have a good level of accident reporting, a comment was raised recently about having accident books that go to site with the instructors, this would then enable them to fill out the records on site and avoid missing details later. We already send the teams away with a comprehensive first aid kit which is stored in a waterproof case and my initial reaction was to just add one of our existing accident books to the kit. The reply to this was that very often accidents happen when the weather isn't at it's most helpful, so I'm considering creating an in house version on waterproof paper. I've obviously got our existing books to work from as a starting point but would appreciate any guidance on what others have done

Ian

Posted By Bob Shillabeer
Why take the accident book with you. There is not enough space to record a comrehensive record of what happened anyway. Just take a note book and record as much as you can about the accident and then produce a report of the circumstances. Accident investigation is nothing to do with recording the incident in the accident book. They have a different purpose.

Posted By SteveD-M
You don't need to the use the official forms so long as you include:

Full name address and occupation of injured person
Date and Time of Accident
Place where accident has happened
Cause and nature of injury
Name address and occupation of person making the report if other than the injured person.