Hello, within the UK H&S we have legislation with regard to injuries which will incur more than 3 days absence- these have to be reported under RIDDOR, and under the watchfull eye of the Health and Safety Exec. At the moment i don't have any access to H&S legisltation if there is any, within the ME - but what I have seen appears to be very flexible!

Hello Saif - There is no such thing as LTI in UK law, this is an employer policy for analysing and comparing safety standards achieved at different sites or over different periods. I understand that most employers only count an incident as LTI if the empoyee is unable to work for more than 24 hours. But this is just their policy not law. UK law requires all accidents that lead to injury to be recorded by the employer, regardless of the time lost: more serious incidents also have to be reoprted to the authorities.

I have used LTIR (lost time injury rate) in a previous organisations which is how we were managed and allowed us to benchmark against other sites either of similiar or different sizes. It was based on number of lost time injuries against actual hours worked. If I remember you divide the number of lost time injuries by the number of actual hours worked x 200,000. It is completely different to the legal requirements for reporting injuries in the UK which currently require the reporting of over 3 day injuries. It allows companies to benchmark against each other for all lost time injuries whether that be 1 day or more. Within the organisations I have worked I have treated all lost time injuries the same irrespective of how much time is lost and given the same level of scutiny to the investigation. Whether it be 1 day or 7 someone has been injured enough to take time off work, therefore that deserves a thorough investigation. Mark