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Posted By Heather Aston
Following Allan's point about RIDDOR over-reporting, here's a short test. Consider the following situations:
1. Accident on Wednesday. Absent Thursday & Friday, didn't work overtime as he should have on Saturday, not due to work Sunday. Returned Monday.
2. Employee working on production line on repetitive job diganosed by GP with carpal tunnel syndrome.
3. Employee hurts leg on Thursday. Works normally until the following Tuesday, goes to GP complaining of pain in leg. GP signs him off for a week. He says it's due to the accident the previous week.
Go on then - without looking up the Regs - which would you report and why? What extra info might you want first before deciding.
And yes, these are all real examples from my company.
Heather
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Posted By Gary L
From the info given i would say
1)Yes - the >3-day rule applies to weekends as well as weekdays. If a person doesn't work weekends then you would have to determine whether he/she was capable of working if needed.
2) No, unless the employee's work involved hand-held vibrating equipment (if memory serves me correct this is mentioned in the schedules
3)Not immediately. It would depend on availability of witness statements, & whether it is possible to sustain the injuries doing the task. Would also be interested in his out of work activities & medical history.
Need more info
Gary
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Posted By Heather Aston
Gary
You can have a gold star :)
Lots of people ignore the "weekends" issue. We asked him if he would have been able to work overtime on Sunday if he'd been due to and he said yes so in the end we didn't report it.
I've seen CTS reported regardless of the job - it does seem a wierd anomaly to me that it's with vibrating tools only but that's what the Regs say
In case 3 we did investigate further and finally decided the injury was genuinely related to the accident.
Life is never dull in H&S!
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Posted By Kevin Drew
1. I'd ask if he was fit to work on the Sunday? If he answers yes then I don't report. If he answers no I report it since it becomes a greater than 3 day LTA (weekends count).
2. Would need to check on what outside interests/hobbies he had before reporting it. If I recall correctly it is a notifiable disease/condition?
3. Would probably report it as a >3 day LTA. The fact that there was a time delay is acedemic although I would need to be convinced the LT and original event were related (he could have injured his leg again subsequently outside work).
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Posted By Mike Craven
Are there any prizes for this test??!!
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Posted By Heather Aston
Kevin - silver star for you. Carpal tunnel is only reportable if the job involves hand-held vibrating tools (weird I know).
Mike - only the award of stars for those who answer the question....... and the kudos of being right of course.
Heather
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