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Posted By SARA TAYLOR
Can anybody pin point where i can find a document that states exactly how to categorise injuries?
US version OSHA simple straight forward easy to find called General recording criteria - 1904.7.
UK?? there is RIDDOR but it doesn't help when trying to categorise for example someone tripping and hurting their hand or ankle (no serious injuries) just bruising but when given medical by doctor that person is requested to be put on light duties for 2 days...
i need to know the exact criteria for a restricted work case, medical treatment, etc..
any help appreciated
thanks
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Posted By Bossa nova
Sara,
There is no 'exact criteria' it all depends on the individual, the injury, the environment, the duties/tasks, the Doctor, hang on how long is that piece of string?
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Posted By Kirsty Davies2
Sara,
You won't find any 'specific criteria' in the UK. Here we can't evaluate the nature of injury by just looking at superficial bruising. We are well behind USA in this field.
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Posted By Bossa nova
I don't know about being behind it is more to do with the totally different systems here and in the good old US of A. Whereas as ours is a risk based system theirs in compliance based so it is easier to set thresholds and categories.
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Posted By Kirsty Davies2
I'm aware of 'risk based system' but am completely ignorant of 'complaince based system'. How would you define this term ? I've checked the definition of 'complaince' which is
1) a tendency to do what others want
2) Willingness to follow a prescribed course of treatment
First one seems funny and second doesn't make sense in safety law terms.
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Posted By peter gotch
Hi Kirsty
UK - goal setting, usually what is reasonably practicable.
Compliance based - you do it by the voluminour OSHA rule book.
A problem if there is no rule either throughout the US, or within a specific state. Hence, e.g. Imperial Sugar dust explosion. Absence of regulatory standards on topic where we have had UK guidance for decades.
Incidentally fatal accident rate in US higher than in most EU states, whilst HSE research attempting to compare like with like indicates that our overall performance on accidents is also better than in US.
Regards, Peter
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Posted By Bossa nova
Or to put it a little more cynically UK H&S is about saving lives and US H&S is about saving money.
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Posted By Kirsty Davies2
GOT IT.
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Posted By Kieran J Duignan
Sara
In response to your specific question, 'Can anybody pin point where i can find a document that states exactly how to categorise injuries?',
I believe the primary document is The Employment Rights Act 1996, which obliges an employer to provide each employee with a written contract of employment.
So, the secondary documents are those in your own organisation which include contracts of employment, an employee handbook and relevant H & S policy documents.
If this is uncomfortable in so far as it refers to what safety practitioners classify as 'HR', bear in mind that the lawmakers dom't particularly design laws for the convenience of you and me (lol!)
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Posted By SARA TAYLOR
thanks everyone for your responses
don't think i have an answer because i think simply there isn't one.
did wonder though just encase i was missing something....
Regards
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