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Expert: Mike Brown CSP Retired - 10/20/2009
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Morning Mike,
With regards to tracking of days since last Lost Time Accident and Last Medical Aid, if an employee had a medical aid that later turned into a Lost Time Accident does the number of days since last medical aid go back to the previous medical aid or do they stay at the date of this Medical AId turned Lost Time?
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Subject: LTA / Med Aid Stats
Question: Morning Mike, with regards to tracking of days since last Lost Time Accident and Last Medical Aid, if an employee had a medical aid that later turned into a Lost Time Accident does the number of days since last medical aid go back to the previous medical aid or do they stay at the date of this Medical Aid turned Lost Time? Thanks
Answer: Chris, unless you have adopted a different method of counting on the north side of the border (and I don’t believe such is the case based on my experience with the Canadian Forest Products industry) the date of the last time-loss incident would be the actual date of the injury. Thus if the date of the original injury was January 8, 2009 that becomes the date of the last time-loss incident even if it did not result in time loss until September 20, 2009. This can be to your advantage in some instances other than it may mean you have a bunch of reports (monthly accident statistics) that are now incorrect and may result in confusion when the correct figures are published. This is one of the strange events that take place in record keeping that only happens once in awhile, thank goodness. I hope this helps and if I can be of any further assistance, please feel free to ask additional question(s).
Michael Brown, CSP Retired
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