Legal Advice: Reporting work-related injuries to Labour Dept Thursday, 02 February 2012 00:54

The work injury means any injury that prevents the worker from doing his work on a full working day, provided that it occurs during work or because of it or while going or returning from the work. If the worker suffers a work injury, the employer or his representative must inform the police, Department of Labour and the competent medical authority immediately about the incident. The employer is also committed to submit to the Department of Labour the statistics on injuries, serious incidents and occupational diseases faced by the workers every six months. The employer must set up the special quality registers about the work injuries and the last serious incidents that led to the death of the worker or the expected permanent disability of the injured person and the third register for occupational diseases according to the schedule set out in Qatar’s Labour Law No. 14/2004, which includes more than one disease including nervous injuries as a result of continuous work such as clerical work in addition to varicose veins, which injures the workers if the nature of their work requires standing for long hours continuously.