ISU Incident Reporting

Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) focuses on accident and injury prevention. To simplify the accident and injury reporting process and improve recordkeeping, EH&S collaborated with Risk Management (Risk), University Human Resources (UHR) and a software developer to implement a new incident reporting system.  

The Iowa State University (ISU) Incident Portal went live October 31, 2016. The portal is a total incident reporting system; everyone with an ISU Net ID can access the web interface from virtually anywhere on campus or outlying facilities.  



The power of the system lies in the ability to accumulate and analyze incident data to proactively enhance safety on campus. The ability to analyze trends and patterns in this data will allow EH&S to pinpoint areas on campus that need attention, and it will  target particular types of injuries that  occur frequently. For instance, this data will be used to determine which sidewalks and parking lots contain slip, trip, and fall hazards. Once identified, the hazards can be reported and corrected.