Ivan Investigate and ascertain cause. Get occ health and HR involved. Urgent assessment of work/job role/ capabilities and making necessary adustments would be necessary. Management not taking it seriously? - I see problems ahead.

Many thanks guys. I will make sure that my colleagues gather evidence with their HR and OCC Health in case it gets to a fight later on. Regards Ivor

Been a whilre since I have heard RSI (as opposed to WRULD or Musculo-skeletal etc) being referred to. Yes, well worth investigating and implementing suitable interventions, as already said some are reportable under RIDDOR. Now; doesa anyone recall Judge Prossers comments about RSI?

Phil I recall Judge Prosser stated that RSI had “no place in the medical text book” and that those with the condition were “eggshell personalities who needed to get a grip on themselves”. However in a HSE research report: How the Courts are interpreting HSE guidance and health and safety regulations An exploratory study of Court Judgments in personal injury claims for WRULDs: RESEARCH REPORT 010: 2002 The following is quoted on the judgement: 'It also transpires that another quote: "eggshell personalities who needed to get a grip on themselves", attributed to the Judge in The Guardian, and a number of subsequent press cuttings, is not a direct or accurate quote from the Judgment. It arises from the Judge quoting an article by Bammer and Martin, who are in turn quoting an Australian psychiatrist Dr Yolande Lucire. The simple and most important fact omitted from the press reports was that H H Judge John Prosser found, on the evidence presented during the trial, that: "He fails to convince me that he has suffered a (or any) injury which he has alleged in this case, both pleaded or in evidence". The crucial point, however, with respect to the subsequent press coverage and the perception of a "general controversy", is that the press reports failed to distinguish between the "diffuse pathological condition reflected by pain" which Rafiq Mughal failed to convince the learned Judge he had suffered and the (more) well-defined clinical conditions popularly understood to be caused by repetitive work.' Work related upper limb disorders became the more favoured umbrella term for a number of musculoskeletal disorders. Heather I don't know if it is a meaningless question or not. Cheers. Nigel