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Accident report form for construction sites, written at once

The first account of an accident is the one that matters. Written within the hour by the person who was there, it fixes the date, the place, who was involved, what happened and what was done. Fidrel’s UK H&S forms carry an Accident / incident report template with eight lines, filled in on a phone or a computer and locked the moment it is submitted, so the account stands as it was written.

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H&S forms in Fidrel on a laptop, tablet and phone, with submitted forms listed and a form being filled in on the phone

What goes wrong with accident reporting on site

Written the next morning from memory

The injured person has gone to A&E, the supervisor finishes the shift, and the report is written the following day with the sequence of events already tidied up. A form that can be opened on a phone at the scene gets the raw version.

No cause, no preventive action

Many reports stop at “operative slipped on the stair”. Without a cause and a named person responsible for the preventive action, the same stair is wet next week and the report has changed nothing.

A report that can be improved later

An internal report that is edited after the insurer or the client asks questions is worth less than one that nobody can touch. Locking on submission protects the person who wrote it as much as anyone else.

The eight lines of the UK template

Date of the incident is a date item. Location and people involved, What happened, Cause and immediate action, and Preventive action and person responsible are text. Injury, First aid given and a third check recording whether the incident has been reported to the regulator are check items answered Pass, Fail or N/A. The form itself adds the location or element, who carried out the report, the date it was made and notes, and it receives a number in the project on submission.

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Completed H&S forms in Fidrel, one opened to show what was observed, the location, the tick answers and the action, submitted and locked

Writing the account so it stands

Put times in What happened: when the operative went up, when the fall was noticed, when first aid started. Name the people involved by role and company as well as by name, because a report read in two years is read by people who never met them. In Cause and immediate action separate the two: what caused it, and what was done in the first minutes. In Preventive action and person responsible name one person and one date, because an action without an owner is not an action.

The three UK H&S templates in Fidrel: Accident / incident report, Near miss / safety observation and Toolbox talk record

Reporting an accident in Fidrel

  1. Step 1

    Open the template where you are

    In H&S forms choose Fill in a form and the Accident / incident report. The template describes itself as an internal report. Enter the Location / element, who it is Carried out by and the Date.

  2. Step 2

    Record the facts first

    Enter the Date of the incident, the Location and people involved, and What happened in plain words. Tick Injury and First aid given as they apply, and tick the third check if the incident has already been reported to the regulator.

  3. Step 3

    Add cause and preventive action

    Write the Cause and immediate action, then the Preventive action and person responsible, naming who will do what. If the cause is not yet known, say so rather than guessing; the form is a record, not a conclusion.

  4. Step 4

    Submit, and raise what follows elsewhere

    Choose Submit; Fidrel warns that the record will be locked and cannot be changed afterwards. Longer follow-up, such as an issue to make the stair safe, is raised in the project and can refer to the form’s number.

The report is internal, and Fidrel sends nothing

The template is an internal record of the contractor’s own. The check that asks whether the incident has been reported to the regulator records what a person has done; Fidrel reports nothing to any authority and holds no link to any reporting system. Whether an incident has to be reported externally, by whom and within what time is a question for your H&S adviser and the duties that apply to your organisation. The form gives the adviser the facts to decide on.

Locked on submission, found by search

A report can be saved as a draft while the facts are gathered and submitted when they are complete; every required item must be answered first. Once submitted it is locked for everyone, administrators included, and keeps its own copy of the template’s lines. The Completed forms list shows template, location, who carried it out, date and status, searched by form, location or inspector and filtered on the Accident / incident report template.

What the accident report form does not do

Fidrel reports nothing to any authority and is not a statutory accident book; the report is the contractor’s internal record. There is no investigation workflow after submission: witness statements, photographs and findings are kept as documents or issues in the project, not on the form. Fidrel produces no accident statistics or frequency rates from the forms. Nobody is e-mailed when a report is submitted, and a report cannot be amended after submission; a correction is a new form that refers to the first.

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The date of the incident, location and people involved, what happened, whether there was an injury and first aid, whether it has been reported to the regulator, the cause and immediate action, and the preventive action with the person responsible.