Treatment of work injuries

What

If a person is injured, the procedure to get medical and other types of aid:

Good to know

You have to notify the employer immediately if there’s:

• A work accident
• Any event that almost leads to an work accident
• Threat to your safety and health
• Defect in the protective system

The employer has to notify a labour inspector if there is a death or serious injury at a work. Information available in Czech language only: http://www.pracovni-uraz.cz

Steps

1. Inform your employee what happened.
2. Go to the nearest accident hospital or doctor (Nemocnice, Poliklinika). If you can’t go on your own, call the emergency number (112) or call directly an ambulance (155 – záchranná služba).
3. Document what happened with help of witnesses, photographs. Your employee is obliged to register the injury.