Incident Reporting
Reporting on key incident and crises is of paramount importance to understanding and reviewing how the incident has been handled in terms of; what went well, how improvements can be made, what corrective action needs to be taken and how to prevent the incident occurring in the future. Detailed reports can also be used as a powerful training tool, in audit situations or if questions are raised over how the incident was dealt with and if justifications need to be made.
Paper based reporting however is only as good as the information that has been inputted. It can have serious limitations in terms of human error, missing information, and inputting retrospective information.