AIBU to think it's silly that Work sent me home for a grazed???

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I work in a supermarket. Cut myself on a sharp bit on the cage. It's literally 2 long scratches, like cat scratches... Did bleed a bit but not much. Washed it, etc. kept bleeding but not deep at all just one of them ones. They said they didn't have a plaster big enough, so it was best I just went home I was very much oh no I'm fine, etc. they said but I'm wasting time trying to keep washing it.

Honestly, it's like to long cat scratches...

AIBU?

Dunno do you still get paid? If so then whoop whoop

Yes, ridiculous.
Now run home quick and enjoy your day off!

You're bleeding, they don't have an appropriate covering so you're having to wash blood off yourself periodically? Yes, of course you should go home. I wouldn't want to be in close proximity with someone leaking bodily fluids at work.

Have they fixed the sharp corners?

If they couldn't staunch the blood health and safety concerns preclude you bleeding on the premises I would have thought.

If course they are not being unreasonable I wouldn't want you bleeding on my products either. You should be in full pay though with it being a workplace accident. Did they fill in the accident book etc.

It was just a scratch though. It wasn't pouring out.

Provided you're still being paid for the day (which you should be) then make a conscious effort to get scratched every single day! And then go home on full pay! Praise be to the sharp corners!

As long as you will still got paid I'd be running out if that door!

Have you heard of hepatitis? Or been tested recently? It can live in a drop of blood for a week outside your body.

I might be unreasonable because my experience of people bleeding is in homeless shelters but NO to any bleeding that isn't covered.

I would say YABU if you're still getting paid. If they're not paying you, they're BU.

I would suggest they're doing it due to H&S and insurance - they really should have a suitable first aid kit on site..

Make sure you fill in the accident book. Don't let them play it down. Yes, it's a miner accident, but you could get an infection.

I'm under the threshold for sick pay, so I believe that's the same for if you clock out half way through a shift?

They didn't add it to an incident book... Does it need to??

If I wasn't getting paid, I would refuse to go home. That's bullshit - accidents in the workplace need to be recorded, and if it's severe enough that you can't work as a result, they should at least pay you for the rest of your shift.

If I was going to get paid, however, I would run before they changed their mind!

Surely a supermarket should have plasters?!!!

They have plasters lol, both in first aid and on shop floor, but none "big enough" apparently. It's literally just a long thin scratch that bled.

It should have gone in the accident book yes, and they should also have made a proper note of the fact that they sent you home.

It was an accident that happened at work. It definitely needs to go in the accident book and they are negligent in not doing so. Make sure it is entered in. If you did catch something, unlikely yes but if you did, there would be no record of it and they would not be liable.

Do they have anything like lint that you can strap over it?

They would still be liable even if not recorded in the accident book - it might just make it harder for you to prove that an accident at work had taken place. Get it recorded in the book!

Of course it should have been recorded as an injury sustained at work.

Surely they have a roll of the plaster that you cut with scissors?

I'd refuse to go home unless being paid for the rest of the day, and if they think it's serious enough that you shouldn't be in work, then it's serious enough that it has to go in the accident book.

No they only have small plasters of those square white ones.

I'll make sure it goes in the book.

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It absolutely needs to go into the inicident book and they're being negligent by not adding it. The incident book is for ALL accidents and near misses - it's part of standard H&S reporting procedures that are designed to make all our workplaces safer.

For instance, it's only a minor thing to you - but if you or two or three people report similar scratches whoever is reviewing the book can deal with the issue before someone falls on the sharp thing and loses an eye.

How about a bandage? It's desperately OTT, but maybe it could hold a bit of kitchen towel in place till the bleeding stops?