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Hello,
I bet there probably isn't an industry standard on this, but I just wondered what other people do when compiling incident statistics - my problem is that an incident often falls into more than one category, but if I classify them under all categories that apply, then common formulae used to give incident rates will count them twice (or more). I am required by clients to compile these stats, and my problem is probably compounded by them using either UK definitions/categories, USA OSHA ones or a combination of both.
E.g.
Broken finger causing 1 day off: Medical Treatment but also 1 day LTI
Broken arm: Major Injury plus over 3 days
What do people think?
Thanks
Kay
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Hi Kay,
Maybe the best way would be to simplify your results, such as Minor, Disease/Illness & Riddor Reportable, then carry out a more complex breakdown, but use only the big 3 for statistical use.
Of course, that is if your organisation will allow it.
We use RIDDOR/ NON RIDDOR, but break down our sub-reports for trend analysis.
Maybe this will help, maybe not!!
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Kay
Common accident/incident reporting categories tend to use minor, major, over 3 day etc. I agree that it is not a particularly useful system for categorisation. I have wondered if a code would be of more use by identifying the immediate or underlying causal factors. But I guess this would be fraught with subjective definitions...one day maybe.
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Here's an extract from one of our manuals;
1.) Accidents and Investigations
Our aim is to prevent accidents from happening. This is something to which we must always aspire. We must try to reduce the frequency and impact of accidents as much as possible.
The word ‘accident’ is often used loosely to describe a whole range of unintended events. Within COMPANY there are a number of classifications that are used to help us identify the severity of the whole range of events that are generally labelled ‘accidents’.
NEAR MISS ACCIDENTS
NEAR MISS INCIDENT ACCIDENT LTA RIDDOR
Near Miss
A near miss is an unintended event in which nobody was hurt and nothing was damaged. For example; Person ‘A’ was pushing a roll cage out of the end of an aisle, person ‘B’ walked across the end of the aisle causing person ‘A’ to stop suddenly to avoid hitting them.
Incident
An incident is an unintended event in which nobody was hurt but there was damage to property. For example; A roll cage falling off of a tail-lift damaging the cage and the stock but not injuring anybody.
Accident
As well as being the common word encompassing all unintended events that result in loss or injury, it also has a more specific definition. An accident is an unintended event that did result in injury but the injury did not result in ‘Lost Time’ (see ‘LTA’ below).
LTA (Lost Time Accident)
An LTA is an unintended event that resulted in an injury that caused the injured person to leave work to get medical attention, to recover or to take time off to recover but for not for longer than three days after the day of the event (including any that would normally be taken off). Any longer and the event then becomes a RIDDOR.
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