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Would you consider that a case of HAVs Stage 1 or 2 should be recorded in the Total Recordable Injury Rate (TRIR). HAVS is of course an occupational disease. Naturally formal HSE Reporting under RIDDOR is not in question, rather do you record an occupational disease in your TRIR or equivalent, where it is not a lost time (injury).
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Originally Posted by: Kate  TRIR stands for ...?
Total Recordable Injury Rate
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Is this a rate based on OSHA criteria? (I ask because 'recordable' is an OSHA term.) If so then you would need to check what OSHA consider to be a recordable injury and whether or not it could include HAVS. OSHA have a bottomless FAQ about which things are recordable and which are not, so the authoritative answer is likely to be either in their definition or in the clarifying examples.
It's not like RIDDOR where as standard we debate different opinions about whether a given incident is reportable or not - in the US, there is little scope for doubt because the regulator (OSHA) has a history of engaging with questions about what is recordable and publishing the answers on its website, to an alarming degree of precision.
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Can't comment on OSHA or other territories where reporting such a rate is a regulatory requirement, but for internal reporting it would likely depend on how you have chosen to define injury. As a disease, the symptoms may have been triggered by a particular task but the damage is not caused by one identifiable incident, so I would not record it as an injury and so not include it in that stat.
Previous workplaces have combined lost time injury and (occupational) illness as a single statistic, but if there is a need to track both I believe it is more useful from a risk reduction perspective to treat them seperately as the causes are often quite different. Edited by user 09 June 2023 11:30:12(UTC)
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