Posted By Lyndon Sutcliffe
If an employee suffers a work-related injury which requires him to be placed on light duties. Does his specific medical condition have to be formally verified by a medical practitioner before reporting can take place?

My own opinion is that a safety professional should take into account all the facts (incident, employees GP etc) and decide if the injury is work related and report the incident accordingly.

I have recently become aware of management and occ.health requirements which counter the above opinion, by recommending additional specialist medical verification of all RIDDOR/OSHA issues prior to reporting.

Posted By Lyndon Sutcliffe
Thanks for your response.
"An over-3-day injury is one which is not "major" but results in the injured person being away from work OR unable to do their full range of their normal duties for more than three days. You can notify the enforcing authority by telephoning the Incident Contact Centre on 0845 300 99 23 or completing the appropriate online form (F2508)."

I already knew this. My question relates to professional verification of an injury and comparisons with similar OSHA reporting requirements. It is more in depth, hence the reason for raising the question.

Posted By Jay Joshi
Lyndon,

For RIDDOR, there is no explicit "restricted work recording" criteria, unlike OSHA.

For RIDDOR, such cases will be included in the "Over 3" day category as a RIDDOR Over 3 Day includes reporting of injuries when the injured person cannot undertake their normall duties--but the over 2 day threshold has to be triggered.

For OSHA, it is any injury or illness that results in the employee not being able to undertake their norma duties.

There are complications regarding OSHA recordables, where a second medical professional can overturn the findings.

Refer to:-

http://www.osha.gov/pls/...able=STANDARDS&p_id=9638