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Posted By Andy
Dear all,
If an employee reported to you or your occupational health nurse with a sore wrist, elbows or shoulders etc, would you class this as a works accident and record it as part of your accident statistics? or would you just document it in the treatment book and then report it if it became an industrial disease such as CTS or Teno?
Any comments of discussion would be appreciated.
Andrew.
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Posted By John Ridd
Yes, document the treatment, and if onset is associated with any particular work aspect then it should probably go in the accident book (though there will be many different views on that, I suspect). But what you should also do is investigate the work activity - do a re-assessment to see if there might be something in the work tasks that might have contributed, caused, exacerbated or whatever, and take the appropriate action.
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