Safety and Accident Reporting

It is the policy of AUA to track accidents, injuries, and near-miss incidents to evaluate workplace safety.  Immediately report all accidents, injuries, and near misses to your supervisor. Your supervisor will investigate all reported incidents and complete an incident investigation report.  Incident investigation reports must be filed with the Human Resources Department.

Accidents / safety issues must be reported for the following reasons:

• To verify that you, your coworkers or students are okay, and to get proper medical treatment, if needed
• Verify equipment is functioning safely and optimally
• So incidents can be investigated to prevent them from future occurrences
• To file a workers’ compensation claim, if applicable.

Each employee and supervisor must practice safety awareness by thinking defensively, anticipating unsafe situations and reporting unsafe conditions immediately.

The following precautions must always be observed:

1. In an emergency situation, if you/ a fellow employee is injured or becomes sick while at work (regardless of the severity) this should be reported to the supervisor immediately.
2. In emergency cases and immediate medical treatment is required, please call 911 / the On-Campus Emergency Response Team at 789-7800 (when operational) and the On-Campus Health Clinic can also be contacted at extension 1562.