liability when transporting an employee to hospital?
Hi,
I was recently asked to take our EA to hospital because she had the symptoms of a heart attack. This was a 15-20 drive away and although I recommended to my General Manager that we call an ambulence, she wanted me to drive the employee to Emergency myself.
I was lucky that the symptoms did not get worse (and later found out that it was nicotine withdrawals she was suffering), but I was worried about the possible implications on me and the company if something did happen on the way to the hospital.
Could I have been liable or would my manager for not accepting my advice? Would the company have been liable? We do have a WHSO, but they were not informed until I rang him from Emergency to up-date him on the situation (he had no idea what I was talking about!)
I know a little about Health & Safety, but not enough to cover this situation, any advice in case this happens again?
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