What should be included in a school accident report?

What should be included in a school accident report?

The accident report should be thought of as something to provide documentation to help us at a much later time to figure out what really happened. For example if we get into litigation, or we have an insurance claim, or any type of situation like that, or we're just reviewing all of our accident reports to find patterns and trends that we can use to implement new safety measures. So, you want to think about documenting the time, the location, the facts of the case, any witnesses that were present, any physical injuries. You may, for example, need to take photographs. If the child has a bruise, or something like that, we may need to take a photograph. We may need to take a photograph of the equipment in case later there is a physical change and somebody tries to allege that the equipment was in a different state than it really was at the time of the incident. Medical treatment performed by staff, if we had a staff member treat a child, we want to document what was done and why. Basically you want to provide enough detail so that a year or two later, you could pretty accurately recreate for a third party what happened with credibility.