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Writing An Incident Report
Writing An Incident Report
Writing An Incident Report
If something unexpected or unpleasant happens in your area or college, you should tell
someone in authority. The best way to do this is to write an account of what happened,
from your own point of view. This is called an incident report.
Plan
When: yesterday after lunch, probably about 1:25pm
Where: in front of the Workstation by the front door
Who: myself: two unknown people: a male a female, wearing suits
What: they rushed through the door passed me, pushed me over, I
fell and smashed my drink bottle, cut my hand.
Following are three example incident reports, all for the same
incident.
1. Read the plan above, and then decide which of the reports is
better.
2. For the other two reports, what is not good about them?
Today’s Date: 12th August 2015
Reported by: Annie Mishap
Date of the Incident: 11th August 2015
1 I was on my way back from lunchbreak yesterday at around 1:25. I was holding a soft drink
in a glass bottle. As I approached the front door of the Workstation, two adults ran out of
the door: one male and one female, both of average height and build, and both dressed in
formal business suits. They pushed past me, knocking me over. As I fell, my bottle smashed
on the ground and I cut my hand on the glass. The two people did not stop or look back at
me. I came back to SHIFT and washed my hand in the sink.
Signed: A.Mishap
Incident Report
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