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Quick question....If someone is injured, and it was there last shift of the week...If there next working day isn't for 8 days, and he misses the first day but is in the next....is it a RIDDOR...i.e. is it 7 working days, or 7 days from injury???
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From HSE website: "Accidents must be reported where … an employee …being away from work, or unable to perform their normal work duties, for more than seven consecutive days as the result of their injury. This seven day period does not include the day of the accident, but does include weekends and rest days."
So if the person is unavailable for work for 7 days, even if these were rest days, it is RIDDOR reportable.
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Unless the IP states that could they have returned to work earlier (i.e. if they had not been off but on shift as normal) and been able to carry out normal duties.
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A Kurdziel wrote:From HSE website: "Accidents must be reported where … an employee …being away from work, or unable to perform their normal work duties, for more than seven consecutive days as the result of their injury. This seven day period does not include the day of the accident, but does include weekends and rest days."
So if the person is unavailable for work for 7 days, even if these were rest days, it is RIDDOR reportable.
that's the thing...is it just consecutive days, including days he's not at work anyway, and weekend...or is it, 'working days' off???
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Certainly reportable.
If their next working day is 8 days away and he missed a day (day 8) and then came on day 9, then the assumption is that he was unavailable for work (according to RIDDOR) for 8 days.
Whether he was needed or required at work is not the point - he would not have been 'available' anyway.
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I just sat my IOSH Managing Safely & asked my trainer this question.
He said the very next day starts the count, regardless if he is on any scheduled time off (Shifts).
So It Is Reportable immediately and starts to count on the first day following the accident.
Hope this helps.
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