How should accidents be recorded?
Submitted by worksafereps on Sun, 2007-01-28 00:14.
The Health and Safety in Employment Act requires employers to maintain a register of accidents and incidents and notify OSH of any cases of serious harm.
The employer must record all events that harm, or might have harmed, employees and other people in the workplace.
Where serious harm is caused to any person, the employer must notify Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) as soon as possible, and provide a written report on the accident within seven days.
The definition of serious harm, and details of how to record and report accidents, can be found on the OSH website.
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