Safety Event/Accident Reporting

There are a number of safety event and incident reporting tools for EMS providers.  Some reports are mandated by Regulation, others are tools for EMMCO West or the Commonwealth Bureau of EMS to help identify potential hazards or work toward minimizing accidents.

The EMS regulations, §1005.10(e)(i) requires ambulance services to report, in a form or manner prescribed by the Department, to the appropriate regional EMS council an ambulance vehicle accident that is reportable under 75 Pa.C.S., and an accident or injury to an individual that occurs in the line of duty of the ambulance service that results in a fatality, or medical treatment at a medical treatment facility. This revised form has been adopted by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, EMS Office to meet the requirements of the regulations.  The link to the right will take you to the EMMCO West vehicle crash, near miss, and personal injury reporting site. You will be asked 3 questions which will determine whether the incident is reportable under the EMS Regulations, in which case you will be directed to the Commonwealth EMS Vehicle Collision and/or Personal Injury Report Form.  Otherwise, you will be directed to EMMCO West’s anonymous vehicle incident reporting tool.  This is used to try to identify the types of vehicular incidents which are occurring in the EMMCO West region which are not reportable to the Bureau of EMS.  This along with our Drive Cam project allows us to identify types of behaviors which adversely affect safe driving.

The second link is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania EMS Safety Event Reporting System.  This system collects anonymous reports of EMS system safety events for the purpose of preventing future events across the system. The reports that are submitted through this website will be used as part of the regional and statewide quality improvement plans to make changes to the system that will reduce or prevent future similar events.