Bit of health and safety help please
Can someone tell me why it is important to write in the accident book at work please? I know it's to safeguard the employee and the employer...but not sure against what.

Thanks
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 18:58, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Evening becky
Kaol might be able to tell you, what with him being in health & safety and all that. I'd guess it's for litigation purposes or industrial injury claims, but I'm no expert.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sun 15 Feb 2009, 19:12, Reply)

Nings DG
I figure anyone who's had to fill in an accident book should be able to say why, but having filled it in 5 times in the last month, I'm still not sure why.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 19:15, Reply)

when I worked at the NHS
used to have to fill it in every blooming week.

It was used to track incidents and problems so that repeat offenders could be spoken to and to identify where what sort of things occured and how to eradicate them happening again, especially so in the case of leaving blades on scalpels or needles left in surgical kits after use.
(Halfy By light alone, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 19:25, Reply)

Ahh fabulous thanks Halfy
I managed to stab myself with Euthatol a few weeks ago when I'd drawn it up for the vet. Not a good plan as my hand was paralysed for a few hours. Forgot to fill in the book for it, but probably just as well as it's littered with me falling over and stabbing myself with sharp instruments.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 19:30, Reply)

shudders
Ew I had a couple of needle stick injuries in my time.

The real pain in the arse was having to go for various blood tests, innoculations and basically have even more needles stuck in me every time!

They didn't used to test all the patients so unless they know you have alphabet hepatitis or mrsa its a lottery

One bloody woman turned my arm into a bloody heroin addicts and then had to send me to day surgery to get it done as she had missed so many times!
(Halfy By light alone, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 19:36, Reply)

Luckily our patients can't pass on that many illnesses to us
so unless we know they have a zoonotic disease we don't worry too much. Unless it's a cat bite of course. Those fuckers hurt and tend to get infected very fast.

My tetanus and rabies are up to date, so I figure I'm good.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 19:38, Reply)

I always figured
It was so that if you got jabbed by a needle or something and your arms dropped off it'd be on record that an injury at work lead to you being incapacitated so that you'd be able to register for some form of compensation while your arms grow back
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 20:18, Reply)

I understood it was
so that if someone claims that their arm has fallen off as a result of an accident at work 6 months ago then you can check up on it and check what action was taken at the time.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 15 Feb 2009, 21:04, Reply)

It's more needless red tape
DON'T LET THE MAN HOLD YOU BACK!

Once I got a paper cut, and I didn't even tell my supervisor, never mind put it in the accident book.
( Malaka omdz, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 1:30, Reply)