A chronology, not a description field

When it happened, and when somebody typed it. They are usually different — patrol writes the afternoon up at the end of the shift, and that is normal — but the gap is the first thing the other side asks about, and an org that already knows the answer is in a far better position than one hearing the question for the first time in a deposition.

Two skiers describe the same collision and they will not agree. Both statements are recorded, attributed, side by side, and never merged into a tidy summary — because the disagreement is the single most important thing in the file, and a narrative that reconciled it would have destroyed the only part anyone needs.

A time recorded wrong is fixed by adding a correction that points at it, and both survive. "We first wrote 13:40 and corrected it to 13:52 at four o'clock" is a document that holds up. A record quietly rewritten at nine in the evening is not, and no reviewer can tell which one they are holding unless the software made the choice for them.

Nobody established who the injured skier was. No waiver is linked. Emergency services were called and nothing records when they arrived. Each of those is a question a solicitor asks eighteen months later, and the checklist raises it the same afternoon — the only moment it can still be answered.