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Hi,
Any views - we have regular formal safety meetings run by set agenda. When recording the minutes is it in breach to record a person name who was involved in an accident or just better to discuss the possible causes and preventative measures required to stop re-occurrence. I think the latter...
GC
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Since data protection act came in, I've always recorded in HS minutes "A member of (department) had this accident..." In practice anyone in the individual's department will know who it was, but no need for us to be the ones spreading it.
If anyone doesn't like this (and there will those who don't), I'd ask what can be added to the process by identifying the injured person?
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Identify the accident and injuries suffered by the IP (injured party) and then look at the lessons learnt and would can / could be done to prevent a similar incident/accident occuring again.
I dont feel there is a need or requirement to identify the name of the person in the meeting or agenda.
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As others have said above, there's nothing to be gained by mentioning names at the safety meeting stage. Anonymise it to IP.
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As Paul said what gain would identifying the injured party give?
Nothing but identifying their department I believe would be relevent (as already said).
In most companys where I have worked names are not included in any minutes taken, even if mentioned during meeting.
Take Care
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I'd agree. The term IP covers all that is needed for such a meeting.
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Just agreeing with the previous statements - adding the IPs name adds no additional value if all you are communicating is that an incident occurred, this is what happened and these are the measures to be adopted to prevent similar occurrences in the future etc
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We had an incident recently where an employee had been off for months with back injuries due to a car crash. Shortly after resuming work, he stumbled and jarred his back. Even though this injury was one that would have not even be noticed by a fully fit person, we felt there was no need to identify the individual.
As Paul said, his colleagues locally know who he was!!
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Thanks for the replies - it was just a question which was asked - i agree with all respondents. Nothing to gain recording the persons name. As some have pointed out everyone know who is was anyway.
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