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Hazardous substances: Accident in the company - obligation to notify
Service Description
As an entrepreneur or tradesman, you are obliged to notify the competent authority without delay
- about every accident and every operational disturbance, which led to a serious health damage of the employees during activities with hazardous substances,
- about cases of illness and death in which there are concrete indications that they were caused by activities involving hazardous substances, with precise details of the activity and the risk assessment.
Who should I contact?
Contact the Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection and, for the area of mining supervision, the Thuringian State Office for the Environment, Mining and Nature Conservation.
What are the fees?
none
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
Notification of the authorities of any accident or breakdown must be made immediately, i.e. without culpable delay.
Legal basis
What else should I know?
The accident report must not be confused with the accident report according to the law of the employers' liability insurance association ( § 193 SGB VII obligation to report an insured event). The two duties are independent of each other.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
Technically approved by
Thuringian State Office for the Environment, Mining and Nature Conservation (TLUBN)
Professionally released on
19.05.2020
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)
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