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Hi all, does anyone have a good technical term for a workplace accident which was so innocuous that it could have happened at home, getting out of bed, driving a car, etc? Thanks.
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I'm not clear what you are looking for here. Accidents when driving a car are not necessarily innocuous but all too often fatal. If you mean accidents that are not related to the work activity, such as when drinking a cup of tea or commuting, you can call them non work related accidents, or domestic-type accidents, or commuting accidents.
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Our most “popular” H&S incident is called a “Non-Accident first aid: eg fainting” ie someone on site receives first aid but the cause is not work related eg injured during their commute in, hurt themselves getting out of bed or most common, a student fainting, typically because they have missed breakfast.
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How about "None Work Related" I know Peter will be along in a minute to say that the HSE interpritation of RIDDOR does not match the regs and hes quit right, but its still what inspectors look at. The example i always use is if i trip over mu shoelace walking down a corridor it my be a workplace accident as im in work, but its not work related (not upto my employer to teach me to tie my shoe lace) but if i trip over a torn carpet that we have a duty to maintain it is work related. Could involve the same injury but would treat very differently.
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Well, it took Peter 66 minutes to come along! Hi Markeland, what do you want to achieve by asking the question. There are some accidents which you might reasonably conclude are NOT "work related" - the severity of injury could vary from the innocuous to death. There are some accidents which may be "work related" that result in "innocuous" injury but which might reasonably be viewed as so called precursors of a much more severe outcome. Problem is that many organisations and individuals (INCLUDING H&S professionals) have a tendency to decide to base the depth of investigation on the actual outcome rather than the (reasonably anticipatable) potential outcome. Which means that lots of opportunities to investigate minor incidents in sufficient depth are thrown away and when the big thing happens people look back and realise that they should have seen it coming.
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