As a staff member, it is important that you report adverse occurrences. This could be accidents or incidents connected to the physical environment or threats and victimisation that affect the psychosocial work environment.
Occurrence reporting is important for us in order to offer a safe and secure work environment and continue to improve our work environment management:
- Safety for students and staff: Through reporting occurrences, we can identify risks and improve safety for both students and staff. This concerns everything from accidents on campus to deficiencies in safety procedures.
- Quality and enhancement: Occurrence reports provide insights into processes and systems that can be improved. By analysing reports, the University can implement measures to reduce risks and improve the quality of education and research.
- Information security: If you or someone else has had information stolen, rendered inaccessible or corrupted, you should report an incident. By reporting information security incidents, we can assist in the management of the incident, learn lessons from reported incidents and, as a result, avoid them in the future.
- Learning and education: Reporting of occurrences provides opportunities to learn. By sharing experiences, others can avoid the same mistakes and learn from previous occurrences.
- Openness and transparency: A culture of occurrence reporting promotes openness and transparency. It creates trust between students, staff and management.
- Legal requirements and regulations: The University is often required to report certain occurrences in accordance with laws or regulations. This could relate to everything from the work environment to discrimination.
To sum up, occurrence reporting is an important part of creating a safe, qualitative educational environment within the University. To report an occurrence: In case of emergency