The Need for Reporting Accidents : All accidents (no matter how trivial) and, dangerous near misses should be recorded. The recording of accidents ensures that all injuries are treated. The record keeping of accidents helps in knowing about unsafe working practices and long term trends in accidents. It helps in tightening safety aspects in a lab.

Further if there is a subsequent enquiry, considerable problems may arise for those concerned unless the accident was recorded or reported. Hence, it is advisable to treat both minor and major accidents as serious and record all of them systematically.