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baal  
#1 Posted : 10 June 2020 09:30:00(UTC)
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baal

Hi,

Looking for some guidance on First Aid Recording with the aim of reducing our AIFR. 

Should you only record lost time and reportable injuries, or should you also include all minor injuries i.e. paper cuts, splinters etc. ....what is acceptable?

Is there a time limit on recording a minor injury/accident i.e. 48 or 72hrs after the event........not referring to reportables.

Can you insist that accident reports are only completed by or in the presence of a first aider. 

Many thanks in advance

Kate  
#2 Posted : 10 June 2020 09:39:59(UTC)
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Kate

OSHA have got a very prescriptive account of what is considered first aid treatment in the US (as whether treatment is medical or first aid is a criterion in their legal accident recording requirements), so if you want a comprehensive set of criteria to avoid bickering over what counts you could use that.

If your aim is to reduce your accident statistics, then all you need to do is to create obstacles to reporting and recording them, and to punish those who do.

If your aim is to reduce the actual number of accidents, then you should focus on investigating and analysing the accidents and near misses that you have had.  But I expect you know this.

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CptBeaky on 10/06/2020(UTC), A Kurdziel on 17/07/2020(UTC)
noragilbert  
#3 Posted : 17 July 2020 08:44:16(UTC)
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noragilbert

Originally Posted by: Kate Go to Quoted Post

OSHA have got a very prescriptive account of what is considered first aid treatment in the US (as whether treatment is medical or first aid is a criterion in their legal accident recording requirements), so if you want a comprehensive set of criteria to avoid bickering over what counts you could use that.

If your aim is to reduce your accident statistics, then all you need to do is to create obstacles to reporting and recording them, and to punish those who do.

If your aim is to reduce the actual number of accidents, then you should focus on investigating and analysing the accidents and near misses that you have had.  But I expect you know this.

Thanks, that is exactly what I wanted to know.

resume examples

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stevedm on 19/07/2020(UTC)
peter gotch  
#4 Posted : 18 July 2020 14:22:00(UTC)
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peter gotch

To add to Kate's comment, 5 years after the BP Texas City disaster, OSHA said they were going to start coming down with a ton of bricks on companies that continued to play all the games that enable accident statistics to look "better".

However, those games continue. Saw the report by one multinational following the principles set out by the Global Reporting Inititiave that showed the nice downwards trend in OSHA recordables and hardly mentioned the disaster that had killed nearly 20 in a single incident. Due to the size of the business those fatalities didn't really impact the overall reportable incidence rate.

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stevedm on 19/07/2020(UTC), Kate on 20/07/2020(UTC)
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