Any injury at work, including minor injuries, should be recorded in your employer's 'accident book'.

All employers (except for very small companies) must keep an accident book.

An accident book is mainly for the benefit of employees, as it provides a useful record of what happened in case you need time off work or need to claim compensation later on, but recording accidents also helps your employer see what's going wrong and take action to stop accidents in future.

By the Employer not wanting to include Minor injuries then he's standing open to being reported to HSE

It is the Responsibility of the First Aiders to record any accidents at the workplace if they are not doing that then they are not carrying out their responsibility correctly.

You can make a Claim against the Company and also state that the employer refused to enter it in the Accident book, so hopefully make a larger Claim should the case go to court.

Its always best to see all accidents recorded and safeguards in place such as reviewing Risk Assessments or Method statements to ensure accidents like these do not happen again.

The HSE cannot do anything about not recording accidents (unless it's an incident relating to sharps) as recording is not required under H&S Law.

My advise to the OP is to send the accident details by e-mail to the company (delivery and read receipt may help) and keep the e-mail as evidence it has been reported to them, especially if their are no witnesses to the event.

gerrysharpe, you say "It is the Responsibility of the First Aiders to record any accidents at the workplace if they are not doing that then they are not carrying out their responsibility correctly."

Are you able to say if this is your local procedure or it is a requirement which is enshrined in national law? I have to admit that I have been failing in this regard for many years because I didn't think it was a first aider responsibility.

Graham

I couldn't see in the RIDDOR SI the requirements for recording! however, reporting = yes. I guess if you are reporting then it is some form of recording, therefore semantics.
I also was under the impression that it was 7 day injuries that needed to be reported (online) and not 3 days. So, the HSE seem to have it wrong at the link above.

My point being the HSE cannot do anything about employers that do-not record accidents. Reporting is a different matter though.

To OP: By adopting that approach, the employer is actually missing a trick.

The reference is to Social Security Regs. as posted by MEden360.

Regulation 25 requires the employer to investigate records of accidents reported in reasonable time AND record any discrepancy found between that record and his findings.

The truth of the matter being that very few employers take the time to properly investigate the incidents at the time.

Yes the requirement to record all accidents and promptly is given in the 1979 Regs so long as there are 10 or more employees. Some how this was missed out.

It isn't 7 day injuries and it wasn't 3 day injuries.

It's 7 (was 3) days where the injury sustained prevents you doing your usual job.

Come on Chris as a Safety Practitioner you magically know if an injury is going to result in a claim don't you? But you are correct with your quote from the regs.

I had my crystal ball delivered a few years ago but still cannot get it to work!