Type:Registers and Records
Frequency: Half Yearly
Action to be taken:
In case of an accident causing personal injury to an insured person, on receipt of a notice from the employee regarding the accident or on knowledge of the accident, arrange for first aid, medical care and transport till the injured person is seen by an Insurance Medical Officer.
Note the particulars (Reg 65(iv) of the accident in an Accident Book (Form 15 ESI Regulations) as soon as possible and obtain the signature /thumb impression of the person reporting the accident. Preserve every such book when it is completed for a period of 5 years. The accident book should be readily accessible at any time.
Send a report in Form 16 (ESI Regulations) to the nearest Local Office and the nearest Insurance Medical Officer immediately in case of a serious accident and within 24 hours of knowledge of the accident otherwise. If an accident report is made under the Factories Act, a copy of the report in the same form will suffice , provided that all additional information required in Form 16 is available.
In case of a serious injury and particularly when injury results in death at the place of employment, the report to Insurance medical officer and the local office should be sent through a special messenger or as speedily as may be practicable under the circumstances.
Audit Requirement:In case of any accidents causing personal injury to an employee insured under the ESI Act,
a) Were First Aid, Medical Care and Transport arranged for the victim ?
b) Has an accident book entry been made ?
c) Was a report sent to the Local Office and the Insurance Medical Officer ?
Supporting Documents:Copy of Accident Book, Detailed Report of the Incident
Related Triggers:
Accident Causing Injury
Injury To An Employee
Related Keywords:
Accident
ESI (Employee State Insurance)
First Aid
Injury To Employee
Related Sections:
Employee State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950
Chapter:Disablement Benefit|
65:Notice of accident:
(i) every insured person who sustains personal injury caused by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment in a factory or establishment shall give notice of such injury either in writing or orally, as soon as practicable after the happening of the accident:
Provided that any such notice required to be given by an insured person may be given by some other person acting on his behalf.
Explanation.-No such notice shall be required to be given by an insured person if an employment injury is caused by any Occupational Disease specified in Schedule III to the Workmens Compensation Act, 1923.
(ii) Every such notice shall be given to the employer or to a foreman or to other official under whose supervision the insured person is employed at the time of the accident or any other person designated for the purpose by the employer and shall contain the appropriate particulars.
(iii) Any entry of the appropriate particulars of the accident made in a book kept for that purpose in accordance with the next following regulation shall, if made as soon as practicable after the happening of the accident by the insured person or by some other person acting on his behalf, be sufficient notice of the accident for the purposes of these regulations.
(iv) In this regulation and the next following regulation, the expression appropriate particulars means the particulars indicated below-
(a) full name, Insurance number, sex, age, address, occupation, department and shift of the injured person;
(b) date and time of accident;
(c) place where accident happened;
(d) cause and nature of injury;
(e) name, address and occupation of the person giving the notice, if he is other than the injured person;
(f) a statement of what exactly the injured person was doing at the time of injury ;
(g) name, addresses and occupation of two persons who were present at the spot when accident happened; and
(h) remarks, if any.
Employee State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950
Chapter:Disablement Benefit|
66:Maintenance of accident book:
Every employer shall-
(i) Keep a book readily accessible (hereinafter called the Accident Book) in Form 11, in which the appropriate particulars of any accident causing personal injury to an insured person may be entered;
(ii) preserve every such book when it is completed for a period of five years from the date of the last entry thereon:
Provided that it shall not be necessary to enter in the said Accident Book particulars of any employment injury caused by an Occupational Disease specified in Schedule III to the Workmens Compensation Act, 1923.
Employee State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950
Chapter:Disablement Benefit|
67:Notice otherwise than by an entry in accident book:
If notice of an employment injury under Regulation 65 is given otherwise than by an entry in the Accident Book it shall be the duty of the employer or any other person to whom such
notice is given under that regulation to make an appropriate entry in the book in respect of the accident to which the notice relates immediately after such notice is received, and where the notice is received otherwise then in writing, read over the particulars to the person who gives the notice and obtains his signature or thumb-impression on the Accident Book.
Employee State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950
Chapter:Disablement Benefit|
68:Report of accident by an employer:
Every employer shall send a report in Form 12 to the nearest Branch Office and to the nearest Insurance Medical Officer-
(i) immediately if the injury is serious, i.e., it is likely to cause death or permanent disablement or loss of a member; and
(ii) in any other case within 24 hours after the receipt of the notice under Regulation 65 or of the time when the accident came to the notice of the employer or of a foreman or other official under whose supervision the insured person was employed at the time of the accident or any other person designated for the purpose by the employer:
Provided that in case of a serious injury, and particularly when the injury results in death at the place of employment , the report to the Insurance Medical Officer and the Branch Office shall be sent through a special messenger, or otherwise, as speedily as may be practicable under the circumstances:
Provided further that where a report of the accident is made by the employer under the Factories Act, 1948, the report to the Branch Office and to the Insurance Medical Officer may be made in the same form as is prescribed under the Factories Act 1948, provided that all the additional information under Form 12 is added thereto:
Provided further that it shall not be necessary for the employer to send a report in Form 12 if an employment injury is caused by an Occupational Disease specified in Scheme III to the Workmens Compensation Act, 1923; but the employer shall furnish on demand to the appropriate Bracnh Office, within such reasonable period as may be specified, such information and particulars as shall be required of the nature of an other relevant circumstances relating to any employment specified in Schedule III to the Workmens Compensation Act, 1923.
Employee State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950
Chapter:Disablement Benefit|
69:Employer to arrange first aid:
Every employer shall arrange for such first aid and medical care and transport for obtaining such aid and care as the circumstances of the accident may require till the injured person is seen by the Insurance Medical Officer and such employer shall be entitled to reimbursement in respect of expenses thereby incurred by him but not exceeding such scale of expenses as may be specified by the Corporation from time to time:
Provided that if the employer is required to provide such medical aid free of charge under any other enactment,he shall not be entitled to any reimbursement of expenses.
Employee State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950
Chapter:Disablement Benefit|
70:Employer to furnish further particulars of accident:
Every employer shall furnish to the appropriate office such further information and particulars of an accident and within such time as the said office may, in writing, require.
