EHS: Incident/Accident management. Workflow

Hi Everyone,
I need to trigger a workflow that will send a notification to a user/s every time a status change occurs on an incident. I am not familiar with EHS at all and need to know if anyone can tell me what object and event will be used to trigger this workflow. I also need to attach a smartform to the workflow notification that will be send to the users inbox and I am not sure how that is done.
Any help will be appreciated.
Regards
Gerda

Thank you both for the replies.
BUS1240 is not defined on our system and the demo workflow WS11200006 also does not work for what we want to do.
I had to create objects for the Incident/Accident log and Safety measures and had to define the attributes,methods, events etc. and used that to trigger and drive the workflow.
Regards
Gerda

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