An incident report is a written account of a situation that has occurred.

It provides a record of events

that led up to an accident, as well as its immediate aftermath. The primary purpose of writing an
incident report is to learn from the mistakes and prevent the recurrence of the same kind of incident in
future.

Guidelines on how to write an incident report.

 Collect the information. The first step is to collect the relevant information.
 Establish the order of events once you have is collected all the information about the incident,
you need to determine exactly what happened.
 Analyze the root cause.
 Formulate corrective action.

An incident report is necessary when:

 There is a serious injury to any employee or customer or visitor.

 An accident causes major damage to equipment or property.
 An accident causes by someone else's carelessness or negligence even if it's a near miss.
 turn order situation where you feel that an accident could have caused significant harm or
concerns regarding the safety of employees, vendors, customize or any other people in vicinity.