Incident Severity for Near Miss

The steps will demonstrate a new section labeled “Incident Severity” after the general details section for Near Miss Incident. This process will help you with identifying and categorizing near miss incidents that have potential to become serious injuries or fatalities, enhancing your ability to manage near miss incidents effectively.

Step-by-step Instructions:

1.Click on Modules
2.Click on Incident Management
3.Click on Manage Incident Report

4. Click on a Near Miss Incident from the list screen.
5. Click on the "Edit" button on the Near Miss summary screen.

*Please Note, this can also be done while creating a Near Miss Incident

5. Click on the radio button as "Yes" for the question "Could this have resulted in a life altering injury or fatality?" under "General Detail" Section.

6. Select the option from Potential Incident Severity" drop-down under "Incident Severity" section.


7. Once the severity is selected, the "Potential Injury/illness field will be populated.
8. Click on search field and select the required "Nature of Injury/illness


9. Select a "Cause of Injury/illness from the drop-down selection.

10. Select the Injured Body Part from the picklist.
11. After entering all the required information, click on save.

In 24.2, we have introduced a new feature new section labeled “Incident Severity” after the general details section for Near Miss Incident which will help the end users with identifying and categorizing near miss incidents that have potential to become serious injuries or fatalities, enhancing your ability to manage near miss incidents effectively.

This field is permission based for the near-miss incident type to view/edit the severity field

Note: For customers currently using the severity field, existing roles will be automatically updated based on their current configuration.

Also, introduces a new setup option labeled "Severity (PSIF)" in the Near Miss Lookup Values of the incident management module setup that allows administrators to configure severity values for the near-miss incident type

Field Information Table

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