Hazard Reports are an important form for identification of workplace hazards that could cause harm and ensuring that new hazards encountered in the workplace are reported. Awareness for employees, contractors and visitors of potential and existing hazards in the workplace is critical for prevention and reducing the risk of injuries.
Often a Hazard Report is what follows after a Incident Report.
When working in a workplace, access to known hazards and having the knowledge and tools to report new ones can save lives, prevent injuries and protect your workforce. What to look for in identifying a hazard, how to report one, how to look up and find known workplace hazards can all ensure everyone's safety in the workplace. Hazard reports may have their own dedicated corrective actions, they may be their own dedicated registry or they could be linked to an incident report too. Commonly you might also see a hazard report involve a risk classification and risk rating process as part of examining risk controls and a risk investigation. We've prepared the best setup tips and form templates for running the best proactive Hazard reporting process for your workplace below and using the Hazard Report app you can stay on top of all these areas. This will commonly form part of your overall safety management software. Setup a hazard report form, hazard identification and hazard registry here: 
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It all starts with a good Hazard Report form available not just to employees but contractors and visitors too. Making sure they have the tools available for report hazards they witness, observe and encounter in the workplace as well as having access to a realtime hazard registry. As they work in their workplace environment, they can cross check the hazard registry for which hazards are present. Critically, knowing what a hazard is and what to watch for with the tool to quickly report one, can lead directly to preventing other people from being affected by the hazard.
It's important to empower your staff, contractors and other workers to report hazards in the workplace and access a registry of hazards they might need to be aware of.
A real-time hazard registry ensures everyone is up to date on workplace hazards.
Another style for communicating a hazard registry is through a hazard awareness approach. In this style, you create a visual representation of a workplace area and the staff member is tasked with identifying all the different hazards in the scene. Basically a hazard awareness assessment in order to help them understand what hazards are present and how to be aware of hazards and work safely with them.
Hazards are real time in the workplace. What was a hazard yesterday might no longer be one today. What you thought was safe yesterday might now be a hazard for your coworkers and yourself today. Hazards are constantly changing, new ones appear and old ones change. It is so critical that employees, contractors and visitors all have access and tools for real-time hazard reporting in the workplace. What does this mean?
Using our realtime Hazard Reporting app, staff have a realtime site specific hazard reporting registry and tools to report hazards, to identify them classify them and notifications built in for the ultimate in workplace hazard reporting, hazard identification and prevention of incidents. Attach details to assets, site specific locations and hazardous areas such as what the hazard is, what to do when working there, what to do when something goes wrong, how to report and manage the hazard.