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What everyone ought to know about Accidents at work

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What everyone ought to know about Accidents at work

It is your employees duty to protect your and let you know about all aspects of health and safety and issues that will affect you in your job. They are obliged legally to report accidents and incidents and to pay you for sick pay if you are entitled to it if you have an accident at work.

Reporting a work accident

Employers must report all serious work accidents and dangerous incidents to the Incident contact centre of the Health and safety executive (HSE) or the HSENI in Northern Island. The report must be sent when the following things occur, disease, major injuries, dangerous incidents, death and anything else that stops an employee from working for more than three days.

Who is responsible for health and safety in the workplace?

It is an employer’s responsibility to carry out risk assessment and to make the workplace safe for all employees and visitors. This will include things such as fire exits, extinguishers, correct signage and first aid.

Recording Accidents

All employers should have an “accident book” that is used to record accidents. This is a great resource for employees if they have to make an accident compensation claim or need time off of work. But from the employers viewpoint it can alert them to what is causing accidents in their workplace and what they can do to correct them.

Sick pay

If you have an accident at work, you will usually be only entitled to statutory sick pay, so if your employer is not prepared to pay out extra money to help you, you may need to make an injury claim and take them to court.

Making an accident claim

If you suffer from an accident at work and your employer is to blame, then you should contact an accident company. Claims need to be made within three years of an accident happening and most companies will offer a “no win no fee” system.

Your employers should provide you with their insurance company, which they should legally have to cover them if a claim is made against them. The whole point of an accident claim is to put you in the positional if you didn’t have the accident. Whether this is loss in earnings or medical cost it should not be seen as a way to get rich.

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