Your company is conforming to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines; it has enlisted safety precautions for employees. But on-the-job injuries do occur regardless. This is what you should do during the unfortunate events:
1. Get Medical Care Instantly
Quickly analyze if the injury is life threatening and get the person to a nearby medical center or hospital. If the condition requires extra medical care call for an ambulance. The quicker this is executed; the lesser hours or days employee will miss at work – a business value.
2. File an Accident Report
Make sure that the employer is notified about the incident as soon as possible, this has to be done in writing. This document is useful when making claims from the Workers’ Compensation Fund
3. Brief The Important Personnel About the Incident
To attain safety at workplace, open communication between employee and the company is a prerequisite. Highlighting the injury will prevent similar cases in the future, safety regulations can be updated and improved as well.
4. Analyze The Safety Procedures
Injuries at work are always tragic, big or small. It is therefore important to review company’s safety procedures after an incident, modify or update them so that there will not be repetition in the future.
5. Maintain a Professional & Vigilant Environment
Accidents at workplace may exert a lot of pressure on both the employee & the employer. Plans, budgets, schedules & productivity get hugely affected as well. People manager (HR) has to play a big role to ease the tension for things to stay afloat.