Serious Incident Statistics

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Johanna Langheld

Dear University of Aberdeen,

I am requesting information pertaining to all serious incident investigations involving the health, wellbeing or welfare of one or more students - a ‘serious incident’ being an adverse event, with significant harmful or potentially harmful consequences, and/or where the effectiveness of the university response is likely to have a significant impact on the health, wellbeing or welfare of a student, their family and/or the community.

The need for a serious incident report is specifically recognised in UUK’s Suicide-Safer Universities (2018) guidance.

It would be most useful, if your reply could be comprehensive. The key factor in all cases is that the University conducted a serious incident investigation. It is not limited to serious incident investigations following the death of a student, or a student suicide, or conducted after a mental health incident (such as attempted suicide, near misses, parasuicide, and non-suicidal self-injury), and whether in University owned property or not. Additionally, if you have records regarding students who were no longer registered with the University, but where you still carried out such an investigation, that information would also be of interest.
If you could provide the relevant numbers, subdivided according to any of the above and/or other categories, that would be extremely helpful.

So, for each of the academic periods 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21:
a) How many serious incident investigations has the University of Aberdeen conducted?
b) How many serious incident reports were produced?
c) How many serious incidents involved a fatality?
d) How many serious incident reports and/or their findings has the University of Aberdeen shared with other institutions?
e) How many serious incident reports and/or their findings have other institutions shared with you?

In the case of (d) and (e), please specify the different types of institution that were involved in the sharing e.g., other university, UUK, NHS, PHE, Mental Health Trust, OfS, DfE, etc

Yours sincerely

Johanna Langheld

Foi, University of Aberdeen

Dear Ms Langheld,

I refer to your email of 6 March 2021 and, on behalf of the University, I acknowledge receipt and confirm that your request is being dealt with in terms of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. In terms of the Act, a reply will be sent to you within the statutory timescales.

Yours sincerely,

Jody McKenzie
Information Governance Officer
Information Governance Team
University of Aberdeen
Tel: 01224 27(3175)

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Foi, University of Aberdeen

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Dear Ms Langheld

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST FOI 2021-063

 

I refer to your email of 6 March 2021 requesting information relating to
serious incidents at the University of Aberdeen.

 

Your request has now been considered under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002, ‘the Act’.

 

For each of the academic periods 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21

a) How many serious incident investigations has the University of Aberdeen
conducted?

b) How many serious incident reports were produced?

c) How many serious incidents involved a fatality?

d) How many serious incident reports and/or their findings has the
University of Aberdeen shared with other institutions?

e) How many serious incident reports and/or their findings have other
institutions shared with you?

 

As it has not been defined what a serious incident is, we have considered
a serious incident to be one that is required to be reported to the Health
& Safety Executive under the RIDDOR regulations.

 

2018-2019

 a. 4
 b. 4
 c. 0
 d. 0
 e. 0

2019-2020

 a. 4
 b. 4
 c. 0
 d. 0
 e. 0

2020-2021

 a. 3
 b. 3
 c. 0
 d. 0
 e. 0

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Yours sincerely,

 

 

Jody McKenzie

Information Governance Officer

Information Governance Team

University of Aberdeen

Tel:  01224 27(3175)

 

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