Accidents and Near Misses

ACCIDENTS

Employees and students at PoliTO are insured against work-related accidents, including so-called commuting accidents that may occur during the normal commute from home to the place of work or study and vice versa.

In the event of an accident, all people working or studying at Politecnico must urgently contact the Staff Management Unit at PEPS.GestionePTAB@polito.it.

The Staff Management Unit will send the injured person a form that needs to be filled in and sent back to the same office. The form must include the details of the circumstances of the injury and must be accompanied by a certificate issued by the hospital stating the number of days of sick leave.

Upon receipt of the required documentation, the Staff Management Unit will send the accident report to INAIL within two days.

 Injuries with only one day of sick leave must also be reported.

At the end of the sick leave period, the injured person must send the certificate of end of injury to the Staff Management Unit (the certificate must be issued by the person’s physician or INAIL medical examiner), or a medical certificate for the extension of the sick leave period.

NEAR MISSES

A near miss is a work-related event that did not result in injury or illness, but had the potential to do so.

Near misses include accidents not involving people, and minor injuries that do not result in days off work, apart from the actual day of the event.

All near misses must be reported to the Health and Safety Services Unit as it is important to investigate the root cause that resulted in the circumstances that led to the near miss (dangerous behaviour, non-compliance with instructions and/or work procedures, structural, organisational and/or technical shortcomings), in order to identify the corrective action that must be taken to prevent further potentially harmful events.