Reporting a Work Accident correctly
posted on 23 December 2011 | posted in
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It is often the case, that work accidents are not reported correctly or even not reported at all. They can even be quite serious and people decide not to tell anyone about them. However, it is important that you do.
There are several reasons why reporting an accident is a good thing to do. Firstly, you will need to make sure that the company know that there is a hazard in the office. Whether you did something silly that was your own fault or something went wring that was not your fault, then you will protect others from doing the same thing, if you report it. The company be have no idea that there is a potential hazard, unless you actually tell them about it. By reporting it, you could be saving other people from doing the same thing. Even if you did something very silly to cause the accident, there is always a chance that someone else might do the same thing.
There is also another reason why it could be in your best interests to take note of the accident, if it was not your own fault. This is that you may decide to make an accident at work compensation claim. If you decide that you would like to do that, then you will need to prove that the accident happened at work as well as proving it was not your fault. If you did not make a note of it in the accident book or tell anyone about it, then you will have no evidence that it took place at work. The solicitor of your employee could easily say that because there was nothing reported at the time, that you could have had the accident somewhere else and therefore there was not enough evidence to say it was their fault.
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