Procedure for Reporting and Recording Illness/Injury

Procedure for Reporting and Recording Illness/Injury is Demonstrated (SO3-AC1)

Occupational Injury vs Occupational Diseases

Occupational Injury

It is an occurrence of which the date, time and place can be determined that arises out of and in the course of an employee’s employment and results in a personal injury.

All occupational injuries or alleged occupational injuries that entail medical expenses and/or absence from work for more than three days must be reported within seven days in the prescribed manner to the provincial director.

Occupational Diseases

An occupational disease is a disease that is caused by work or working conditions.

This means that the disease must have developed due to exposure in the workplace.

An occupational disease can normally be identified in that:

• There is a causal relationship between exposure in a specific working environment or work activity and a specific disease; and
• The disease occurs among the group of exposed persons with a higher frequency rate than in the rest of the population, or in other worker populations.

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