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What are the main differences between OSHA and HSE / RIDDOR?
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kmc  
#1 Posted : 20 February 2013 12:35:43(UTC)
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kmc
Your views would be appreciated
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HSSnail  
#2 Posted : 20 February 2013 12:39:22(UTC)
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HSSnail
OHSA is American
HSE / RIDDOR is UK
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redken  
#3 Posted : 20 February 2013 12:43:29(UTC)
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redken
Two things;

They count medical treatment and incidents with any lost time as a recordable
AND
On their website they have detailed FAQs for their rule. ( we use the IOSH forum for this!”)

http://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/detailedfaq.html
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David Bannister  
#4 Posted : 20 February 2013 12:49:39(UTC)
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David Bannister
Much of OSHA regulations are prescriptive: you must do this, you must not do that etc.
Much of the Regs that HSE enforce are based on risk assessment i.e. choose the most appropriate ways of controling the risk, depending on significance and reasonableness.

However that is at best a broad generality.
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chris.packham  
#5 Posted : 20 February 2013 12:55:43(UTC)
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chris.packham
What about EASHW (European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, Bilbao)?
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peter gotch  
#6 Posted : 20 February 2013 12:59:13(UTC)
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peter gotch
K

Very limited OSHA reporting requirements.

Fatals and min 3 hospitalised from same incident to be reported within 8 hours.

Everything else recorded with an annual summary report to OSHA (by which time have had plenty of opportunity to massage the stats).

Broader requirements some holes in US national and state legislative requirements e.g. as regards explosible dusts.

Google "Imperial Sugar" explosion.
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imwaldra  
#7 Posted : 20 February 2013 13:35:07(UTC)
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imwaldra
Another key difference is that OSHA injury frequency rates are based on 200,000 hours (approx. 100 people for a year) whereas HSE national stats are per 100,000 people - though most UK organisations ignore this and still publish injury stats based on a nominal 100,000 hours.

IOSH recommends the 'per 100 people per year' approach, as easiest for non-specialist to understand and visualise.
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John J  
#8 Posted : 20 February 2013 13:41:05(UTC)
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John J
You have mail
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Kate  
#9 Posted : 20 February 2013 13:44:05(UTC)
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Kate
The type of injury is mostly irrelevant for OSHA. Injuries are mostly only recordable if the person is off work as a result or if they have medical treatment. There is a very detailed list of what treatments don't count as medical treatments.

To find out whether an injury is recordable, you therefore need to find out exactly what treatment the injured person had (which of course they don't have to tell you and the doctors won't tell you) and consult the detailed OSHA guidance.

Why do you ask?
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jay  
#10 Posted : 20 February 2013 15:23:22(UTC)
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jay
OSHA's "Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illness"-Rule 1904, compared to GB RIDDOR :

---has more "recording" requirements and less "reporting" requirements, therefore casts its net wider than RIDDOR -, i.e a lot of simple OSHA Medical Treatment cases will not be RIDDOR reportable

----For OSHA, one has to count more than one day (not including the day of the injury) as the trigger for both restricted work case and lost time work case. For RIDDOR, it is 3/7 days.

---is more prescriptive in its clarification of when an activity is work related or not


The best aspect is that OSHA formally respond to formal letters it is sent to clarify specific aspects of the recording & reporting, therefore anyone can refer to the clarification published on its website. I have included a sample of the clarifications.


http://www.osha.gov/pls/...p;src_anchor_name=1904.5(a)&src_ex_doc_type=STANDARDS&src_unique_file=1904_0005


http://www.osha.gov/pls/...p;src_anchor_name=1904.5(b)(2)&src_ex_doc_type=STANDARDS&src_unique_file=1904_0005



http://www.osha.gov/pls/...p;src_anchor_name=1904.5(b)(6)&src_ex_doc_type=STANDARDS&src_unique_file=1904_0005



Please refer to the OSHA Rule 1904 and you can, after reading it know what the difference is:-
http://www.osha.gov/pls/...1&p_part_number=1904
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