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908 Offshore Oil and Gas Safety I
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Incident Reporting

An incident or accident is an unplanned event that causes or has the potential to cause injury or illness, and damage to property, company assets, or the environment.

Here's an incident waiting to happen.

When workers are offshore, all injuries or illnesses should be reported and documented. No injury or illness is too minor to report. This includes both work related and non-work related injuries or illnesses.

Company employees should report all incidents to a supervisor as soon as practicable (within 1 hour). Written incident reports should be submitted within 4 hours and preliminary accident investigation reports within 24 hours.

Contractors should plan to submit completed investigation reports no later than 7 days from time of the incident.

For more information on this topic, see OSHAcademy Course 702 Effective Accident Investigation.

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

2-4. How soon should company employees report all incidents, no matter how minor, to a supervisor?