When a man runs a business he doesn’t necessarily expect to run into any incidents but there will be situations that will come along that will cause you some distress. One of these situations is where you have to deal with one of your employees being injured in some accident in the course of their employment. There is a certain way of handling these situations. If you do not stick to those you run the risk of ending up in a very precarious situation. As such make sure that you read up on the subject matter and understand the process. The purpose of this article is to merely give you a few pointers as to how to handle the situation.You do not want compensation lawyers at your heels, as such one of the first things that you must do is to make sure that you are insured and capable of dealing with such a situation when it does arise. There are a few major companies that you can go to, just select the one that you would like. When the situation does arise the first thing that you need to do is to make sure that you provide proper first aid or medical care as required. It is one of your fundamental obligations as an employer of the person injured.
Next you must proceed to inform the insurance company of the injury within the prescribed number of days. Unless you do so you will be easy pickings for the work injury lawyers Brisbane that your employees will hire to represent them. It can however be in any form. That is to say by an agent of yours, by email, by telephone etc. All that matters is that you do the needful within the given time. Once reported you will be provided with a reference number that you may have need of to track the notification at a later date. The report you make in whichever fashion does also need to contain certain information such as the name and address of the employee, the nature of the accident, the extent of the damage etc. all for the purpose of making it easier for the insurance company to identify what to do. There is however a category referred to as notifiable accidents such as death or serious illness or injury which you need to inform the NSW immediately. All in all it would be in your best interests to know the process well.