Visual Incident Report
An incident report with key elements simplified and visualised.
Visual Incident Reports in the field
Available formats
Anglo American’s Learning From Incidents posters and animations ensure safe work behaviours are clear and the controls required to keep our workforce safe are reinforced.
Frequently asked questions
How is a Visual Incident Report going to improve safety?
Workers first need to understand what caused an incident and how it can be prevented. A Visual Incident Report helps in three key ways:
Greater participation. Visuals and storytelling hold attention — supervisors and workers’ time is not wasted trying to extract meaning from text-heavy documents.
Multilingual reach. All visual incident reports can be translated into any language, and illustrations make them easy to follow even without reading the words.
Better understanding. Illustrations clarify the facts of an incident. Text often leads to lost context and misunderstanding; illustrations ensure the whole team grasps the concept quickly.
Workers who engage with visual incident reports are less likely to repeat the incident — reducing fatalities, preventing severe incidents and avoiding expensive mistakes.