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Hawaii Injury Reporting for Workers� Comp

December 7th, 2006 Posted by Mark

Let me make it clear to you, Hawaiian employers. In the Hawaiian system for workers’ comp, the responsibility rests with you to produce any evidence and proof that a supposed workers’ comp injury is actually not work related. And if you don’t, expect your injured employee to get medical benefits and disability compensation. This responsibility also places the burden on you to follow the regulations of the state workers’ comp system to a tee, and to make sure you keep the most accurate records of any and all accidents or injuries.

You’ll want to do this, of course, for all injuries that are for real too. Keeping the best records, injury reports, and other forms and saving them in a administrative system that makes it easy to track them down when you need them can help you save time and money in the long run when it comes to your workers’ comp claims.

One of the first steps to this accurate and up to date records system is following the procedure in Hawaii when it comes to injury reporting. As soon as an injury occurs, your employees should know to report it to you or their direct supervisor at your company. It’s at this point that you then fill out an Employer’s Report of Industrial Injury, or WC-1, form. This is required to be submitted within seven working days, and you should fill this out and get it in on time even if you don’t think the injury is truly work related.

If you want to make sure your employees know that need to report their injuries to you in a timely manner, be sure to follow the state rule that says you must post all of your workers’ comp info, including the employees’ rights, their responsibilities when an injury occurs, and what sort of benefits the employees can get.