Spread the Word to Councils About Incident Reporting Resources
In the December issue of Scout Wire, we made the request for timely and accurate incident reporting using the Online Incident Reporting System. How can you accomplish that if you don’t have the necessary information from unit leadership such as the who, what, where, when, why, and how an incident occurred?
The Guide to Safe Scouting contains information on incident reporting on page 39. The appendix contains a sample of the Incident Information Report. We ask that you post links to the following reports on your council’s website with a short paragraph on the need for volunteers to report. The more data your enterprise risk management committee (health and safety and risk management committees) and the national office have, the better we can evaluate trends and make improvements to the BSA’s programs.
Scouting Safely, which can be found on www.scouting.org, contains health and safety and risk management forms, including the following:
- Incident Information Report
- Near Miss Incident Information Report
- Annual Health and Medical Record
- Tour and Activity Plan
Should you have any questions regarding the Incident Report gadget and procedures for reporting an incident or near miss, please contact Brenda Newsome or Angie Kahler.
The safety of our Scouting families continues to be the number one priority of our national organization. I support the efforts of the national office related to having the most accurate information related to these issues.