Hi All, so I know the definition of a lost time injury and RIDDOR reporting requirements, but this is an interesting one.  If a contractor bangs their hand on a door handle, during their normal working day, and has had it x rayed and it is only bruised and advised to keep it elevated, in their managers opinion is deemed still fit to carry out their normal duties, but the individual chooses to take time off, does this count as and LTI? 

If the contracting company can still provide us with the same service with that individual off work, does that count as an LTI?

I look forward to your views

An LTI for who - you or the contractor?

It will ceratinly be an LTI for the employer irregardless of the managers "opinion" as the employee is not present at work conducting their normal duties.

Whether their LTI transposes to your figures is up to you - we record subbie incidents as part of supplier review but do not publish external numbers with our own e.g. on a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire

Actually we would be the same, the LTI would not be for us, we would record it and investigate it but not a recordable LTI for us. LTI would be on the contracting company.

There is no standard definition of a Lost Time injury and especially no legal definition.  It can be a local thing that you define and record yourself or it can be something that you are required to record as part of a benchmarking scheme or some other system you subscribe to. This scheme should have a definition of lost time injury; if it does not it’s a bit rubbish.