Psychological Safety and Risk Management

8. Hazard, incident and near miss reporting

The principal or their delegate must ensure all psychosocial hazards, incidents and injuries are reported on eduSafe Plus (staff login required). For further information on the reporting of incidents, refer to the Managing and Reporting School Incidents (Including Emergencies) policy.

The department strives for a workplace culture where all staff are willing to report hazards, near misses and incidents honestly, openly and without fear. All principals and their delegates should encourage and support their staff to make eduSafe Plus reports.

It is important for staff to know that they can choose an alternative manager (for example, regional director, assistant principal) to be the incident review manager if they do not wish for the report to go directly to their line manager (this may be needed, for example, when the incident involves the direct line manager). Directions for this can be found on the eduSafe Plus reporting form.