Posted By Bob Youel The moment a person stops work it is a lost time and £ event to a business and the individual concerned as what an individual does reflects on how a business performs - The areas that you add into the maths equation depends on how far, deep and wide you want to go! I cost the very basic completion of an accident form alone at a minimum of £50 per form. This cost does not allow many factors to be considered Real lost time costs can be very shocking

Posted By John Mac Carthy I've counted it as each full day the person is not able to work, this would include weekends if they work overtime at the weekend i.e. engineers, gardeners etc. I know other people who count it as every hour, it depends how much time you wish to spend on capturing data. In short lost time from production is every minute/hour away from a workstation. Lost time (H&S) each full day after the incident has occurred; I don't include the day of the incident, just like RIDDOR. More interestingly, do you use the 100,000 or 200,000 figure for man-hours? What’s important is what you want to achieve? Promote a positive culture or spend all your efforts on reactive measures? Good luck

Posted By SNS Thanks for the replies, I think that, unless directed otherwise by HR, I will try to go for using full days following incidents. Trying to promote a healthy culture and capture useful information. Rgds, S

Posted By Suffolkman Hi I just spent 12 years working for a US corporation who use the same OSHA definitions worldwide for LTI ( which are not the same as RIDDOR)but probably better define LTI ( lost workday) Lost Workday : A workday is considered a lost day if an employee is disabled from performing all work on that day. A lost workday makes a case recordable(OSHA) and LTI. • Example: An employee is injured and is unable to return to work for the remainder of the day of the injury, but returns the following day. This is not a LTI case. • Example: An employee is injured on Friday and is unable to work until Monday. The employee is not scheduled to work again until Monday. This is not a LTI case, unless you receive information from a physician or other licensed health care professional indicating that the employee was unable to perform his normal duties during the weekend. If so, you must record the injury or illness as a lost-workday case. Don't know if that helps

Posted By tb SNS Apart from the RIDDOR reports which are 3 days after the incident, I find it easier to calculate the time lost as 1/2 to 3 days. Apart from knowing the exact number of days lost due to injury, we can then see how many first aid cases, medical treatment cases, LTIs and RIDDORS we have within the business and can target any problem areas that may be arising. Hope it helps. Tony