Chapter 23: Injuries in The Course of Employment

2300. Any Government servant who sustains an injury in the course of his employment, whether or not it may be regarded as arising out of his employment must: report the circumstances of the occurrence, the nature of the injury and, the name of the Doctor, or Nurse who attended him, to his Head of Division who will send a brief written report to the Head of his Department. the Head of Department will be responsible for obtaining a report of any medical treatment that may have been provided at the time of the injury or later it may be necessary for the officer to be medically examined at some later date.
2301. Every Head of Division and, where appropriate, Head of Department, is required to keep an Injury Book as a facility for immediately entering in a permanent record particulars of all injuries that are reported.
2302. It must be brought to the attention of all members of the staff that, it is in their interest to report at once, any injury they sustain while on duty no matter how trivial the injury may appear to be.

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