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As I was saying, the mandatory workers’ compensation posters in the Washington, D.C. area also serve other interests besides just you following the labor law of the land. The workers’ comp poster also allows your employees to learn what their responsibilities are under the workers’ comp labor laws. The poster can help teach them, for instance, what they are required to do when an injury occurs on the job.

The poster, for instance, tells employees that under the law they are required to report their injuries as quickly as possible to you their employers, as well as to the Office of Workers’ Compensation. Even if the employee doesn’t think much of their injury, and the injury isn’t an emergency, they must still report it to you.

There is a special form that your employees must use to report these injuries, called the Notice of Accidental Injury or Occupational Disease, which you should have copies around the office of. After the employee completes it and signs it, they have to mail it in to the Office of Workers’ Comp. They should also mail or hand you a copy of the completed form as well.

In the Washington D.C. system, employees can choose which doctors that they go to for their medical care. In some other states we looked at before, if you can remember that far back, the states make it so that employers and their insurance companies can decide what doctors the employees go to.

In the event that an employee does not report the injury to the Workers’ Comp Office, then it is up to you the employer to notify them and your insurance company, preferably no more than 3 days—no more than 10 days at the latest—after the injury was reported to you by the employee.

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