You should report any accidents you have at work to your employer and put them in the accident book.
Your employer must report certain accidents to the Health and Safety Executive. They can do this by phone, fax or email. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) estimates that employers in the catering industry report only one out of every four accidents that they should tell the HSE about.
Under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR), employers must report deaths, major injuries, injuries or diseases that involve being off work for more than three days, and dangerous occurrences (but only if they 'arise out of or are in connection with work'). This includes violent incidents. They can use the forms at www.riddor.gov.uk/reportanincident.html to do this
You also need to report the death or injury (if it requires a trip to hospital) of a member of the public (but only if they 'arise out of or are in connection with work').
