Dealing with accidents in the workplace

Despite the enormous health and safety improvements along with a growing list of safety standards, workplace unfortunately many still dangerous. No matter what industry you work in labor there are potential hazards in each of them. It could work in an office and begin to suffer from repetitive strain injury due to improper positioning of your desk or you might stumble aspects such as boxes that were left on the floor. Maybe you're a construction worker who is suffering because of a fall from a scaffold or you are an employee who has been given faulty equipment. Whatever your position, and whatever your area of ​​work, unless you have the correct health and safety or the right amount of training, you run the risk of suffering a serious accident.

And 'the employer's responsibility to ensure that work is safe and free of hazards. It 's also the responsibility of the employer to ensure that employees have received the right amount of training, but as an employee if you feel you have not received sufficient training for the work you're doing or if you are one of the devices using faulty / worn you must notify the employer immediately so that necessary measures can be taken to improve the safety of the workplace.

If the worst happens and an accident happens at work then your employer has a legal obligation to report certain accidents and incidents. The employer must report serious work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous incidents to the Incident Contact Centre of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), or in Northern Ireland the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI).

It 's essential that your employer reads as follows:

or Death

or main lesions (for example, a broken arm or ribs)

Or dangerous incidents (eg, the collapse of scaffolding, people overcome by gas)

Or any other injury that stops an employee from carrying out their normal work for more than three days

or Sickness

In addition to report any serious incidents or accidents employer must also provide the company accident book, which is required by law if the company has more than ten employees. But if there is no book and no incident has taken note of the incident then it is important that your employer will advise you to write down what happened, specifying the exact circumstances of the accident and the injuries that were incurred.

In order to reduce the amount of accidents that are caused due to incorrect security procedures, it is important that all employers are provided with the correct safety wear such as goggles, helmets, ear defenders, dust masks, gloves, boots security or high visibility jackets, as well as being referred to as lift heavy objects in a safe manner.

If you have had an accident at work is important that you get any injury checked by a health professional and make note of your injury to your employer .......