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Accidents & Emergencies

By law any accident, however minor, must be reported to the Activities Department within 24 hours. The full Accident and Emergency procedure - including details of who to contact - can be found online here.

Reporting an accident

If there is an accident, the Students' Union needs to know so that it can reassess what we do, contact the University and check risk assessments if necessary. It is just as important to let us know if there is nearly an accident, so we can put checks in to stop it happening again.

In most cases the injured person(s) is responsible for reporting the accident. However following a serious incident a report from the injured person, the activity leader and any witnesses is essential.

Accidents must be reported by completing an Accident Report Form and sending it to your key staff member.

We recommend keeping several copies of the Accident Report Form with your first aid kit, and making sure the organiser of any trip or event, or a committee member for general meetings/training, carries some copies as well.

In the case of a serious accident or near miss then an investigation may be undertaken by the Activities Department to gain further information about the incident, so please make sure the accident report form is filled in correctly and as fully as possible.

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