
Medgate - Version GX2 - Incident Management
From Medgate - GX2 - Environmental Software Suite
The Incident Management module is present in both Medgate’s Safety and Environmental Software Suites, but is configured in each suite to meet the unique requirements of the field. Developed and enhanced by safety/environmental professionals with field experience, this module enables organizations to collect comprehensive data on incidents, create an accurate picture of the event, identify root causes and learning points, implement corrective actions, and ensure proper incident notification up the chain of command.
Key Benefits of the Incident Management Module
This module will help environmental/EHS professionals to:
- Streamline environmental incident reporting and investigation workflow and build a consistent process across sites, business units, and/or countries
- Improve and accelerate information sharing between environmental professionals, supervisors, and managers
- Promote data integrity and compliance with complete, comprehensive, and accurate incident reports and investigations
- Implement actions that will prevent a similar incident from happening again
- Use metrics to track environmental/safety performance and identify root causes, risks, hazards, and trends so you can prioritize efforts and make impactful changes
- Support adherence to environmental management system standards
How does the Incident Management Module Work?
This module includes many invaluable features that will help you quickly and effectively realize the benefits described above. The features fall into five groups:
- Incident Reporting and Notification
- Data Collection and Investigation
- Root Cause Analysis
- Investigation Approvals and Corrective Action Tracking
- Incident Management Metrics
- Integration Points
Incident Reporting and Notification
- Capture data for any environmental event topic:
- Releases and spills
- Notices of violation
- Regulatory inspections
- Customer complaints
- Service failures
- Begin the incident workflow from within the Event Reporting module (an employee or supervisor reports an environmental event) OR from within the incident management module itself
- Automatically notify any and all relevant parties (H&S staff, managers, etc.) once an incident report has been filed
- Send incident summary reports to any designated parties within the organization
Data Collection and Investigation
- Collect various incident data and consolidate in one main incident record:
- Witness statements and contact information
- Photos of the scene or incident
- Any documents related to the event
- Data collected using company-specific questionnaires / checklists
- Attach any and all related event reports that have been filed by employees using the Event Reporting module
- View risk assessments relating to the incident in order to gather valuable lessons learned data for the job in question within the incident record
- Classify/categorize the incident according to your standards with numerous user-defined fields
- Configure and follow an investigation completion and approval workflow according to your company process
Root Cause Analysis
- Use a decision tree model for easy visualization of‘5 Why’ root cause analysis. Using this non-linear method of root cause analysis, you can:
- Track multiple reasons and sub-reasons as to why the event may have occurred
- Select the most fitting underlying cause to include on the incident record
- Once you are satisfied with the data you’ve collected, you can begin the approval process; your decision tree will be stored on the record for future review if needed
Investigation Approvals and Corrective Action Tracking
- Streamline incident approval workflow and action assignment, ensuring that the incident approval process is complete and accurate:
- Trigger an automated investigation workflow/approval escalation process that moves through the appropriate chain of command for the employee in question
- Automatically generate and send assignment emails containing pertinent incident information and a standalone link that allows assignee to access and update the incident record
- Configure reminders to run at different frequencies before and after the activity due date
- Maintain a history of incident approvals/rejections along with approver comments
- Seamlessly connect actions to findings, allowing for the action workflow to be automatically triggered when a specified finding is recorded
- Manage incident and other environmental-related findings & actions in the Findings & Actions module for quick access to all active actions
Incident Management Metrics
Medgate’s comprehensive Business Intelligence tools will empower you with meaningful reports that allow you to analyze incident data, track environmental performance, and identify trends, hazards, and root causes.
- Provides three reporting options that enable you to visualize your progress and performance:
- Flexible Standard Reports that allow you to run common EH&S metrics with multiple filtering options
- Robust Report Writer that can pull simple or complex reports on any data in the system
- A powerful Metrics tool that offers drag and drop functionality and allows you to see multi-dimensional metrics with limitless possibilities
- Allows you to post your most important reports to your environmental dashboard
Integration Points
Medgate’s Incident Management module is also part of Medgate’s safety suite and occupational health suite (for any injury/illness incidents). In the environmental suite, it integrates with these other modules:
- Event Reporting
- Risk Assessment
- Findings & Actions
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