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Sbjm		#1 Posted : 21 April 2021 13:26:24(UTC)
Rank: New forum user		Can anyone advise if a teachers has contracted covid at work, through e.g a pupil/another staff member is this reportable ? Covid RA various controls in place.


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Alan Haynes		#2 Posted : 21 April 2021 13:52:04(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		How do they know it was contracted at work?

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peter gotch		#3 Posted : 21 April 2021 13:57:16(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		The guidance from HSE says: You should only make a report under RIDDOR when one of the following circumstances applies: an accident or incident at work has, or could have, led to the release or escape of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). This must be reported as a dangerous occurrence a person at work (a worker) has been diagnosed as having COVID-19 attributed to an occupational exposure to coronavirus. This must be reported as a case of disease a worker dies as a result of occupational exposure to coronavirus. This must be reported as a work-related death due to exposure to a biological agent But as alluded to in Alan's response the middle of these bullets is dependent on having some evidence that the illness was occupationally caused and not picked up e.g. in the supermarket.

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Sbjm		#4 Posted : 21 April 2021 13:58:33(UTC)
Rank: New forum user		Originally Posted by: Alan Haynes How do they know it was contracted at work? Evidence to suggest it was not contracted through the community family etc? Just through a process of elimination? But no real evidence? What evidence would you look for?


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Sbjm		#5 Posted : 21 April 2021 14:02:05(UTC)
Rank: New forum user		Originally Posted by: Sbjm Originally Posted by: Alan Haynes How do they know it was contracted at work? Evidence to suggest it was not contracted through the community family etc? Just through a process of elimination? But no real evidence? What evidence would you look for? And how do you decide if it occupational caused?


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Roundtuit		#6 Posted : 21 April 2021 14:53:50(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Unless the teacher is in a school of medicine working with the virus it is not an occupational exposure.

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Roundtuit		#7 Posted : 21 April 2021 14:53:50(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Unless the teacher is in a school of medicine working with the virus it is not an occupational exposure.

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Yossarian		#8 Posted : 21 April 2021 15:15:13(UTC)
Rank: Super forum user		Originally Posted by: Roundtuit Unless the teacher is in a school of medicine working with the virus it is not an occupational exposure. As Roundtuit intimates, there has to be causality demonstrated, i.e: an outbreak in a care home where a cares is exposed to a sufferer as part of their job (Occupational Disease); or an outbreak caused by a spillage in a lab (Dangerous Occurence). Exposure in a school (picked up via test and trace) is not considered occupational exposure, but community exposure in this case. Full details from the HSE website here.

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