Workers' compensation.

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law requires an employer to provide a claim form and a notice of potential eligibility for workers' compensation benefits within one working day of receiving notice or knowledge of an employee's injury that results in lost time beyond the employee's work shift at the time of injury or that results in medical treatment beyond first aid. First aid is defined to mean any one-time treatment, and any followup visit, for the purpose of observation of minor industrial injuries that do not ordinarily require medical care. This bill would delete the above-described definition of first aid in existing law and would authorize the administrative director to adopt regulations to define various terms, as specified. Until these regulations are adopted, the bill would define medical treatment and first aid.