As of 1 January 2027, the ASR Arbeidsongevallen application will disappear from Belgium’s Social Security portal. Until now, employers could use it to report work accidents electronically. This is reported by Prebes, the Belgian professional association for prevention advisors, on 19 October 2026, based on information from Fedris, the Belgian federal agency for occupational risks.
What was ASR Arbeidsongevallen?
ASR stands for “Aangifte Sociale Risico’s” (Declaration of Social Risks), the umbrella term for a series of electronic notifications that Belgian employers could submit through the Social Security portal. Employers used “ASR scenario 1” to report a work accident, and “ASR scenario 3” to report that a victim had fully resumed work. The portal also offers a helper module that lets employers check whether an accident qualifies as “serious” and therefore also has to be reported to the labour inspectorate. Prebes’s article gives no reason for the application’s discontinuation; it is limited to the announced date and the consequences for employers.
What changes for employers and insurers?
Until 31 December 2026, employers can still report work accidents through the application on the portal. From 1 January 2027, they must report directly to their occupational accident insurer, either on paper or through the insurer’s own electronic application. A report can also be filed through a broker, insurance agent, or “sociaal secretariaat”: in Belgium, a specialised service provider that handles payroll administration and statutory filings on behalf of employers. Employers who already report directly to their insurer will notice no change. According to Prebes, the module for assessing whether an accident is “serious” will remain available after 1 January 2027 via a link on the Social Security portal.
Context
Fedris is the Belgian federal agency for occupational risks. According to the Flemish government, it took over the duties of the Fund for Occupational Accidents and the Fund for Occupational Diseases on 1 January 2017. Together with the licensed insurers, the agency maintains an electronic register showing, for every employer, which company provides its occupational accident insurance and for which period, and it checks whether employers are indeed insured. Every employer with staff in Belgium must have taken out this insurance from the first day of employment; registration with social security alone is not sufficient. Employers who are not insured, or insured too late, are registered by Fedris ex officio against an amount that counts as a penalty, not a premium.
For prevention advisors, insurers, and multinational employers with an establishment in Belgium, the change is mainly a matter of organisation: internal procedures for reporting work accidents must be adapted before 1 January 2027 to the direct channel to the insurer. For international compliance teams, the change shows that local work-accident reporting procedures need to be checked periodically for administrative shifts.
Source: ASR Arbeidsongevallen verdwijnt van portaal Sociale Zekerheid, 19 October 2026
Additional research: socialsecurity.be, DMFA instructions on employers’ reporting of work accidents (background on Fedris and the insurance register); vlaanderen.be, organisation profile of the Federal Agency for Occupational Risks.
