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What are the legal requirements for reporting an accident at work?
What are the legal requirements for reporting an accident at work? Does this also apply to the self-employed?
You must notify your employer if the accident took place at work. If you are self-employed, you must record the accident yourself.
The accident must then be reported in the accident book.
Your employer has a legal responsibility to report the accident to the Health and Safety Executive or the local authority environmental department and can be prosecuted if they fail to do so.
Accidents should be notified to the Incident Contact Centre: tel: 0845 300 9923 (http://www.riddor.gov.uk).
You should report any injury (however seemingly trivial) to your doctor because the full extent of the injury may not be immediately apparent.
If you subsequently seek to go to court to get compensation for the injury, the initial medical report will provide evidence to support your claim. Don't discuss any compensation claim you plan to make at this stage with your doctor.
You can contact the Workplace Lawyer's on 0800 066 99 10 or email a request for advice for a provisional assessment of any injury payment you might receive.
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