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Incident Reporting

If you or someone else is injured, seek immediate care.

  • For minor injuries, go to the nearest First Aid Station on your floor or the Student Health Center located in the One Main Building, room S445.
  • If urgent care is required, call or have someone call the UHD Emergency Number at 8-911 (713-221-8911) or go to a Yellow Emergency Call Box.
  • In either case, make sure the injury or near miss is reported to your supervisor and the EHS Office immediately. This allows a timely investigation of the incident and facilitates the appropriate corrective action from the EHS Office.

An incident is any unplanned event that does not result in personal injury or damage to property; however, given different circumstances could have resulted in a loss. An accident is any unplanned event that does result in personal injury (including death) or damage to property.

Proper, accurate, and timely reporting play a critical role in the investigation of an accident, incident, injury or near miss. The investigation and analysis of the event allows us to:

  • Identify the hazard/determine the cause
  • Develop a solution to prevent further injury/loss
  • Put the proper safeguards in place to prevent recurrences

Please follow UHD HR's Workers' Compensation - Employee Process Guide and complete the Employee's Report of Incident or Injury form.
https://www.uhd.edu/hr/resources/process-guide-workers-compensation.aspx 

Students and/or visitors involved in an accident on-campus must complete the Student/Visitor Incident Report form, and submit to the Office of Environmental Health and Safety. Should the individual involved in the accident be unable to complete the Student/Visitor Incident Report form initially, the UHD employee and/or witness should provide an initial assessment of the incident via email or Police report.
Student/ Visitor Incident Report Form

A near miss is a warning to all that conditions are in place that could result in an injury. Do not wait until you or someone else has been injured. When you become aware of any potential hazard, near miss or spill, contact the EHS Office by email ehs@uhd.edu, or visit us at OMB S621.
Safety Hazard/ Near Miss Report Form

  • 1. For an injury that requires first aid, ensure the injured party receives any needed care and or first aid immediately. Make sure the individual is comfortable. For an injury that requires more than first aid, call the Police for outside urgent care at 8-911 or (713)221-8911.
  • 2. Notify your Supervisor and the EHS Office for all accidents, injuries or near miss incidents.
  • 3. If outside medical service is required, the Supervisor must Contact Human Resources (HR) Worker Compensation Coordinator.
  • 4. Cordon off the area if needed. Do not remove anything, change anything or clean up until the investigation has been completed.
  • 5. The EHS Office will conduct an investigation immediately to determine if corrections or repairs are warranted to avoid additional or repeated harm to individuals or property.

First aid is the immediate, temporary treatment given in the event of an accident or illness before the doctor arrives. First aid also includes self-help in the absence of medical facilities and personnel. Immediate first aid may be the difference between complete recovery, permanent impairment, or death.
  • 1. Check the victim(s) quickly for any life-threatening conditions, such as the following:
    • Unconsciousness
    • Trouble breathing
    • Chest pain or pressure
    • Severe bleeding
    • Head, neck, or back injury.
  • 2. Call 911 or the UHD emergency number x9811 (713-221-8911), and: provide the location of the emergency; describe what happened and what seems to be wrong; describe what first aid is being given; DO NOT hang up until the dispatcher hangs up; and return to the scene to help care for the victim.
  • 3. If the victim is unconscious, open his or her airway and check for breathing, pulse, and severe bleeding.
  • 4. While waiting for medical professionals to arrive, begin rescue breathing or CPR and then control any severe bleeding and treat for shock or administer other appropriate first-aid treatment (AED).

State employees who are placed in situations requiring first aid or emergency care should be aware of the Good Samaritan Law. The purpose of this statute is to encourage both certain medically trained persons and laypersons to render aid in emergency situations. The statute provides a waiver for acts constituting ordinary negligence. The basic provisions of this statute are as follows:
  • A person who in good faith administers emergency care at the scene of an emergency but not in a hospital or other health care facility or means of medical transport is not liable in civil damages for an act performed during the emergency unless the act is willfully or wantonly negligent.
  • This provision does not apply to a person administering care for or in expectation of remuneration or whose negligent act or omission was a producing cause of the emergency for which care is being administered.
  • Persons not licensed in the healing arts who in good faith administer emergency care as emergency medical service personnel are not liable in civil damages for an act performed in administering the care unless the act is willfully or wantonly negligent.

This provision applies without regard to whether the care is provided for or in expectation of remuneration.