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I have been looking at incident classifications and found an interesting classification which I’ve never seen before:
RIDDOR NFD>7 days – Not fit for normal duties over 7 days
A person is fit for work but not for normal duties, i.e. can carry out other tasks Having read through RIDDOR 2013, it would appear in essence to comply with the regulation in that, it is an over 7 day work related injury. This is where the waters become muddled. An over 7 day work related injury is recordable, where the IP can’t carry out their normal work duties, however, from this classification definition “is fit for work but not normal duties”?.
If someone is fit for work but not normal duties, should it be classified as a restricted work case? However, RIDDOR doesn’t accommodate this classification. It should be an LTI, as the individual can’t carry their normal duties. I wonder how this would be recorded on any official company stats; would it impact the LTIFR rate? Wondering if anyone has seen anything like this?
Edited by user 28 June 2017 11:24:35(UTC)
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Without the context in which you found this reference it is difficult to say. I have come across similar definitions where people have returned to work but doing things like sedentary jobs. BUT and you knew there would be a but - they are still RIDDOR reportable and you have to be very clear with your managers and HR that this is case and show any injuries in this class as RIDDOR reportable in your stats and obviously report them to the HSE. Personnally I would avoid setting up this as an accident classification that I would quote normally and would use it only on a case by case basis. In my situation this is mainly because we have few options for alternative work and it would make little change to how we report and record accidents.
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 1 user thanked Hsquared14 for this useful post.
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It is definitely a RIDDOR reportable injury - the "doing other work" thing is a bit of a red herring that I would use only for internal reporting procedures to give a more detailed breakdown of the statistics
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On a slightly different note. When reporting RIDDORs and the HSE definition of 'work-related-, would you consider an entrance mat work equipment?
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This harks back to your other post - a door mat to an entrance comes under the heading of safe access and egress. RIDDOR does not talk about work equipment - if someone accessing their place of work tripped over a doormat and suffered a RIDDOR reportable injury then it is reportable, the fact that the door make is not equipment used in the course of their work is immaterial.
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