Incident Reporting

There are three levels of incidents, two of which need reporting:

  1. Non-reportable Incident: falls, slips, knocks, no injury, small cuts and bruises, that can be ignored. Folk just get up and move on

  2. Minor Incident - Reportable: any injury obtained during a sanctioned outing that doesn't need a visit to a medical facility but does need some sort of treatment at the scene. It is a minor incident even if it just means giving someone time to get back on their feet again. I.e. the group must stop.

  3. Major Incident - Reportable: any injury obtained during a sanctioned outing that requires medical attention.

Examples. 

Minor incidents

  • may involve someone falling off their bike, but they get back on and finish the ride despite some pretty bad bruising.

  • Getting stung and needing antihistamines to combat hives.

Major incidents

  • would involve the rider not being able to finish the ride, even if an ambulance is not called.

  • Getting stung but antihistamines are not working, and medical evacuation is required. 

FMCBC has guidance in its Handbook and the FMCBC website addresses incident reporting, follow the links in this section.

How do I report an incident? (Scroll to the bottom!)

Please fill out the Incident Reporting form as soon as possible and submit it to fmcbc@mountainclubs.org.

You may be required to answer some follow-up questions from our insurer, including whether the incident took place during a club-sanctioned trip. You may also be asked to submit a copy of the signed waiver.

To make the incident reporting process go as smoothly as possible, clubs should document and keep a record of all of their trips, and also have a well-organized system for storing waivers so you can produce them when required.