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If an employee has a reoccurrence of a previous "old injury", the old injury was work related at the time, my question now is does the employer have to report the reoccurrence of the injury.
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I think it would depend if the recurrence was work related. If they had an accident - say a broken foot and it was reported and, in the fullness of time it mended and then they broke same foot again playing football, that would not be work related and not recordable. On the other hand, if they twist that foot and break it again at work, that would be recordable.
That's how I understand the situation anyway.
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Agree with Hilary. Was the original injury reported under RIDDOR? Did it need to be?
If possible, can you provide a wee bit more info?
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This was a common question with frequent absence due to 'back pain'.
As indicated above, any reoccurrence would need to be traceable to a specific work activity.
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If the original incident was reported I see no reason to double report the same incident, provided there has not been a further incident causing the recurrence.
If it was not reportable initially but now results in time lost from normal duties (i.e. over 7 days) I would want to be absolutely sure that the condition is work related before I reported now.
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