injury at work - an unpleasant thing, it is a cause of non-compliance with health and safety.Injury of manufacturing usually takes place instantaneously or for a short period of time (poisoning, burns, frostbite).Synonymous with this concept is the term "accident".Depending on the causes of her injuries at work can be:
- mechanical (fractures, sprains, bruises);
- chemical (burns, poisoning);
- thermal (frostbite, burns);
- electric (burns, ventricular fibrillation, respiratory arrest);
- radiotherapy (radiation burns).
By severity can be divided into microtrauma, with a temporary disability, accident requiring investigation group, with severe outcome, fatal.
If an injury at work, the employer must immediately provide first aid to the injured person, where necessary, to take him to the hospital.Thereafter, the employer must form a commission to investigate the incident (involving a trade union), before it starts is necessary to ensure the preservation of the situation in the workplace, tooling and equipment in the form in which they were at the time of the incident.
The incident, if the group, leading to a death or disability accident should be reported to the prosecutor's office, the executive authorities, state inspection of work, bodies of state supervision (if the organization supervised).At the request of the victim or his relatives to the Commission may be included their representative.Following an investigation, a special act of (N-1).
accident may not be recognized as associated with the production, if it occurred as a result of intoxication (not related to the activities of the organization).
What is necessary to the employee if the injury occurred in the production?Payment includes various components defined by law.Key points: temporary disability benefits and monthly insurance payments in connection with occupational disease or industrial injury.When there was a work injury, the payment to the victim may include compensation for the cost of medications, transportation to the place of receipt of the social and medical care, personal care fees, costs of rehabilitation, and for the manufacture and repair of dentures.In the absence of contraindications to drive, if you have certain medical conditions the person provided the vehicle and it compensated for the cost of its maintenance and upkeep.
In addition, a person can demand compensation for moral damages and reimbursement of expenses for vocational retraining.Because the payments required by the law of the victim, now carries the FSS, but not the employer, ensure that they are receiving has become higher than ever before.For their registration is required to submit certain documents (H-1 certificate, certificate of salary, employment records, receipts, contracts, etc.).
