Posted By Allan St.John Holt Uday, I suggest that the norm for this would be first to see which party is responsible for the whole project. They should count all the injuries on their records. Certainly that's what an ethical project manager would be doing, as far as I can tell from the information you've given. Next, the individual contractors should record all their direct employee injuries, and separately any to their subcontractors. Invstigations should be carried out by all contractors with a role in this, although a central inquiry at which all parties are present would save the need for many interviews of the same people, which in turn can add to stress levels and take time. In view of what you say, it may be that the regulatory body will be doing an investigation, but this should not take the place of one by those on site. However, the contractors and/or the regulator may subcontract the investigation to a third party - there is no shortage of people who could do this. Finally, but I guess too late now, a major injury/emergency plan should have been in place for the project before this happened, and one of its features should have been to set out the roles and responsibilities of all parties in the event of such an occurrence. If you email me direct I may be able to find a modest example of such a plan! Hope this helps, Allan Hope this helps.

Posted By Laurie Surely if they are your employees and they are killed/injured while at work then they must be "your" accidents, regardless of blame? We run a sports complex on behalf of the LA, and if anyone breaks an ankle while playing football for instance it has to be reported by us, and appears as a "reportable" in our statistics (much to my disgust!) but obviously we discount such reports when analysing our figures Laurie