A quick question and answer section on
what to do in relation to injuries and
illness in the workplace.
Q. One of our employees has been
diagnosed as having asthma and works
with wood dust in a machine shop. Is
this a prescribed disease?
A. If it is shown that wood dust has
caused the asthma, then yes it is.
Asthma due to exposure to wood dust is a
miscellaneous condition, number 7(j).
Q. Are prescribed diseases under the
Social Security (Industrial Injuries)
(Prescribed Diseases) Regulations the
same as the reportable diseases
contained in RIDDOR?
A. No, some are duplicated but the lists
are not identical and some of the
related occupations are slightly
different.
Q. We keep a copy of the accident book
(BI510) locked in the first aid room and
a manager makes an entry if someone is
injured. Is this correct procedure?
A. No. The duty on employers is to
maintain an accident book in which
particulars of an accident causing
personal injury to an employee can be
recorded by that employee or someone on
his or her behalf. That person acting on
his or her behalf could be a manager but
the details entered are intended to be
those supplied by the injured person.
Should there be a discrepancy between
the facts stated by the employee and
those found during the investigation
(which should be carried out by the
employer) the discrepancy should be
recorded.
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