Hi, I have an employee who claims he was injured by a small grinder kicking back and hurting his hand and has now presented with a doctors note for seven days. The situation has developed as follows: Immediately after the "incident" he carried on working as he didn't experience any pain not reporting the incident to my team at all. The following day he worked for 8 hours before deciding to report the incident. He was assessed by the onsite team, no injury found and he returned to work. However he has since stated he attended A&E but again no injury could be found. Today he has presented a sick note detail a soft tissue injury............... Any advice please re RIDDOR reporting - LTI etc. thanks in advance for the advice ! for the record he is trained etc.

Tis the week before Christmas and he wants a few 'free' days. Do a full return to work and take him off tools until proven competent, any doubts on competency involve HR and company procedures (that should exist) for lack of capability. Scrooge lives.

I am assuming that HAV's monitoring is in place and the individual was working within the guidelines/limits?

Of course it has, if its a reoccurring injury, then the vibration would most likely be causing the "pain", if you feel that its a fast one, then he could be lining up for a compensation case where his solicitor would 100% be asking for HAV's records! Seen it happen before

Your sumising that he does not undergo Health survillence or equipment is monitored. All the OP says is the person claims it kicked back continued working complained the next day and went off sick. We do not know anything else!