The incident report may have been initiated by an employee and posted manually to a new incident by a supervisor or a safety/environmental representative, or automatically posted based on user settings. For more information, see Working with Event Reports.
If the incident involves injury or illness, the incident report may have been created automatically in the Clinic Visit, Case Management, or Body Fluid Exposure module when a record is marked “Occupational” or “Share with Safety”. The user cannot save the record until it is linked to an existing or new incident.
The incident report may be created directly in the Incident module in either the Safety or Environmental suite.
If multiple incidents have been created (either manually or automatically) that should be combined:
1. In the incident list, select the incidents that should be merged into another incident (do not select the incident that they should be merged into).
2. Choose Actions»Re-assign/Combine Incidents (you must have appropriate permission to perform this action).
3. Enter the incident number that they should be merged into.
The original incidents are marked invalid and removed from the list.