Personally I think he's covering his ass in the hope that if he wants to
make another claim it will work in his favour, especially if the company
has previously accepted his tick in the box for industrial injury on
previous days absence. I too am of the opinion that any episodes of back
pain since the initial injury are unlikely to be related (especially as it
was only an STI and with no other complications (?).
Why don't you have him assessed by a physio/company medical officer who
could put this one to bed for you once and for all (cost of potential claim
versus approx £25 for a physio report)! I would also ask him what he has
been doing to limit future back pain i.e. exercising and building up core
abdominal strength, is he overweight etc - what ownership has he taken of
his 'condition'
We have a back pain clinic on site that runs over 3 weeks for those
identified with previous episodes of back pain and we have found it to be a
great success - just to look at ....
(See attached file: Back Pain Managment Programme.doc)
Regards
JJ
Jo Jenkins
Occupational Health
King's Lynn Office
Tel: 01553 615152 Mobile 0771 2120 003
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Dear List,
Here is a question you might like to give me your opinion on.
I saw an employee today, who had a soft tissue injury to his back in 2001.
He made a claim against his employer, and won his case, receiving
compensation only recently.
He has since been back at work, to all intents and purposes fully
recovered, and is doing his substantive post. This does not cause him any
great problem, except occasionally he gets a bit of low back pain.
When this happens, if he takes any time off, he fills in a self
certification form, and always ticks the box which asks if it is due to
industrial injury. In the time since injury and the present, he has only
had approx 8 days in total.
His HR manager argues that he should NOT class it as Indust. injury, but he
feels he should.
Discussed with the OH team today, we all felt that as nurses ( many of us
trained in the NOT Modern Matron era, but I won't go into that!) we would
not relate low back pain today, to our various back injuries sustained in
the days when we lifted everything in sight.
Opinions welcome!!
Jean Jackson.
Jean G-J
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