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Employers have a moral and legal obligation to keep their employees safe. This means having the right processes and tools to manage and mitigate workplace incidents, such as a well-designed incident report template.
Due to businesses implementing stricter Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards, workplaces in the U.S. have become considerably safer since 1970. Worker fatalities dropped from 38 deaths per day, then to 15 per day in 2022, and worker injuries and illnesses fell from 10.9 incidents per 100 workers in 1972 to 2.7 per 100 in 2022.
Still, organizations must work harder to reduce these numbers further and combat