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Dear all,
just wanted to gauge what other companies are doing in regards to accident reporting. At the company that I work for we report every type of accident and we are currently averaging approximately 9 accidents a month however, the majority of our accidents are as straight forward as ''bumped into door frame'' no first aid given. What are you reporting? Accidents similar to ours or only accidents that require first aid treatment? My company also has processes for near miss reporting etc.
Your thoughts and feedback are greatly appreciated.
Scott.
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Not sure what you mean by "report" - that the individual involved reports it to the company, or that the company includes it in incident figures?
We encourage all incidents to be reported, and then assign a severity category, and also a potential severity category (that is how bad could it have been rather than how bad it actually was) to each one and only include in the figures the ones in the higher categories.
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Our situation is similar. We encourage staff to report everything, including near-misses. We capture this electronically (an access database, I think). The reports are automatically sent to the H&S team, who assign them a severity rating and categorise them by type. Line manager is automatically copied in and has access to the database.
If the incident is worth investigating ie not someone walking into a door, either the line manager or the H&S team investigate it and produce a report that is circulated to interested parties and any lessons learned adopted.
The problem with this is that this system is designed for our internal use to enable us to better manage our H&S system. What has happened now is that we are now having to benchmark against other agencies and their figures look suspiciously low. I suspect that they are not recording some of the sort of rubbish incidents and near-misses which we are capturing. For example this week a person tripped over a chair in the office. She was not blind, nor drunk. There was plenty of space between desks, yet she still managed to hurt herself significantly which means that our stats suddenly look much worse as this is one of only two accidents we have had this month. (So half of our accidents are rated severe!).
Basically you need to be careful with these figures, as they might end up being used as a stick to bat you with
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All incidents are reportable to us and documented but we measure our performance by using "recordable" incidents as defined by the OSHA standards.
OSHA "recordables" are First aid cases, Medical treatment cases, restricted work cases and LTIs. There is also strict guidance criteria listed by OSHA.
Hope this helps
David
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All incidents are reportable for us, but we measure our performance against anything RIDDOR requires - that way we get a good idea of us against the rest of industry.
Always have everything reported, the everything else is usually an indicator that something big will happen soon if not sorted soon. Also, lots of minor injuries in a particular area means that something is up.
If you just report RIDDOR type stuff, you may miss a whole load of other things...
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