Accident Reporting
All accidents that occur on Maynooth campus must be reported to the Health and Safety Office without undue delay. The Health and Safety Office are obliged to report accidents to our insurers or the Health & Safety Authority, as appropriate. In order to compile data, the Health and Safety Office would ask that all injuries/accidents should be reported as follows:
All accidents that occur on Maynooth campus must be reported to the Health and Safety Office without undue delay. The Health and Safety Office are obliged to report accidents to our insurers or the Health & Safety Authority, as appropriate. In order to compile data, the Health and Safety Office would ask that all injuries/accidents should be reported as follows:
- Staff should report an accident/incident to their line supervisor and record the accident on iProtectU: Staff Accident Report (Note: this link may be required to be clicked twice to access the accident report form directly)
- Student should report any accident using the link here. If an accident occurs as part of teaching i.e. lab work or field trip, a member of staff should be advised immediately and they can report the accident on behalf of the student through iProtectU here.
- Visitor or contractor on campus should report an accident here. Alternatively a member of staff can report the accident on behalf of the Visitor or contractor through iProtectU here.
In the event of an emergency where medical attention is required, please contact a member of security on (01) 7083929, a first aider and/or an ambulance on 999 / 112 if required.
Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions and a follow up is necessary.
Reporting of Unsafe Conditions / Near Misses / Dangerous Occurences
Personnel are required to report to the Health and Safety office any observed unsafe codition, and/or any incident that could have led to an accident (known as a near miss), and/or any dangerous occurrence. Examples include unlevel under foot conditions causing trips, falling objects, people acting unsafely, broken lights.
Unsafe Conditions and/or Near Misses are to be reported via the following methods:
- Personnel able to access iProtectU are to report unsafe conditions / near misses here (Note: this link may be required to be clicked twice to access the incident report form directly)
- Personnel (students / visitors / contractors) unable to access iProtectU are to report unsafe conditions / near misses here
Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions and a follow up is necessary.