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About Serious Incident Reporting (SIR)

Whenever an event or set of circumstances that arise that require reporting, the head of the funded service must ensure that the matter is reported to the Commission using the Commission's Notification of Serious Incident reporting system.

Downloadable publications

Guidelines on completing the Serious Incident Report form [DOC 1.3 MB] [PDF 87 kB]
- These guidelines give a definition of a serious incident and why it is important to report and document serious incidents.  The guidelines also provide an introduction to serious incident reporting, when to compete a serious incident report, what to do in the event of a serious incident, who to contact and tips on how to complete the serious incident form.

Serious Incident Report - Form [DOC 235 kB] [PDF 42 kB]
- The form used to report serious incidents.

Instructions for use of the Word Document version of the Serious Incident Reporting Form [DOC 90 kB] [PDF 75 kB]
- How to enable the spell check facility and enable macros in the Serious Incident Report form.