
Creating Incident/Accident Log Entries
Use
If an accident or near-accident occurred in your enterprise, you can enter all the information necessary to process the event using an entry in the incident/accident log.
Prerequisites
The following prerequisites must be fulfilled:
persons involved must be entered in the SAP System.
If you want to edit the Accident location field, you must have assigned accident locations to the affected work area in work area management.
If you want to specify the affected functional location, the equipment, or the machine, you must first have linked them to the work area in which the accident occurred using the data integration function.
If you want to enter additional information about the event or the person(s) affected, you must have defined the required fields as characteristics when you set up the system. See Use of the Classification System.
Procedure
From the Industrial Hygiene and Safety menu, choose Accidents ® Edit incident/accident log.
Choose
.
Assign a unique key to the incident/accident log entry, or leave the field blank.
If you do not enter a key here, the system assigns one automatically when you save the data record.
To make the settings for assigning the key, see Specify Number Ranges for Incident/Accident Log Entries in Customizing for Industrial Hygiene and Safety.
Assign an entry type and a plant to the incident/accident log entry.
Enter other data as required.
If you want to record an event that involves damage to persons, enter one person in the person affected role, and any other persons involved as required (such as eye witnesses or first-aiders).
Save your entries. The Incident/Accident Log: Edit Entry screen appears.
To display administration data such as address or date of birth for a person involved, select the person in the Involved tab page and choose
. As the function is executed as a user exit, you can extend it to add more fields. For more information on user exits, see Manage User Exits in Customizing for Industrial Hygiene and Safety.
To enter more data, choose the tab pages you want to edit, for example, Event location; Involved, Damage.
Enter the required data and save your entries.
From the Involved tab page, you can navigate to editing detailed data about the person affected. To do this, select the required person affected and choose
Details. The Incident/Accident Log: Edit Person-Specific Data screen appears. Here you can enter information on treatment, injury, absences, and so on. You can also access the accident reports function. Here you can generate the accident report.