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Wondering if anyone can help with definitions
Is their an industry stand for both:
Major Accidents
Minor Accidents
As i currently am in discussions on how we define both types of accidents rather than using HSE definitions
Thanks in advance
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I think the short answer is no.
I worked for multinational oil company and they used the following (from memory):
1= Near Miss
2 =Minor Injury (an injury that needs no treatment from first aider / doctor)
3 = First Aid Injury (an injury treated by a first aider - not just the first aider attends)
4 = Medical Treatment (needs treatment by doctor or similar)
5 = Lost Time Injury (anything over 1 shift)
6 = Reportable (RIDDOR to you and me)
There was a rather thick manual that gave examples against each category.
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I was interested to read this classification of incidents that you remember from the gas and oil industry. This sort of classification could be applied to any work place but it look at accidents as individual events rather than the wider scale impact of an accident for example , so you could classify accidents as:
- Minor- only one person(direct employee or contractor) injured
- Serious-Several employees/contractors injured in a particular area or team
- Widescale incident- Employees and/or contractors across whole site or facility injured
- Major incident -incident effects (injures) members of the public near the site
- Disaster –wide scale ill effects local emergency plans activated
Note Injury here can include anything from a cut finger to death-we are looking at the group impact not individual impact Essentially you can choose your own metrics but they need to be relevant for what you do.
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twelsh
Can you clarify? Your post heading refers to 'injuries' but the body refers to 'accidents.'
A major accident is usually referring to process safety type events that have widespread impact and may result in multiple fatalities. A major injury is quite different.
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