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CIPD L3 - Sickness Absence Data

Emma

Hello,

I'm currently doing Unit 3RAI and am considering using Sickness Absence for my practical assessment. I'd like to align the sickness reasons of my company to those given in the Health & Wellbeing at Work report (https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/culture/well-being/health-well-being-work). However, the categories on the report appear quite vague, for example "Acute medical conditions (for example stroke, heart attack and cancer)" and "Recurring medical conditions (for example asthma, angina and allergies)". I wondered if anyone knows where I cold find a more definitive list of how the illnesses have been categorised so I can compare like to like?

Many thanks,

Emma

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  • Hi Emma

    As you want to compare your company's sickness absence to an authoritative external benchmark, I think you might be better off to use the report as it stands and aggregate your company's sickness reasons into the same categories as the report. It would only be someone at the CIPD who could track down the report's author(s) to find out how they made their decisions and they would then have to disaggregate (if there is such a word) their categories. I would think you would be unlikely to be able to make this happen.
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  • Hi Emma

    As you want to compare your company's sickness absence to an authoritative external benchmark, I think you might be better off to use the report as it stands and aggregate your company's sickness reasons into the same categories as the report. It would only be someone at the CIPD who could track down the report's author(s) to find out how they made their decisions and they would then have to disaggregate (if there is such a word) their categories. I would think you would be unlikely to be able to make this happen.
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  • in reply to Elizabeth Divver
    Thanks for taking the time to reply Elizabeth, that's certainly the plan ... and that is where I have come a bit unstuck. The categories on the report are so vague, that I'm struggling to decide if some of the illness on my report should be considered recurring, minor illnesses or acute etc. None of the sources I have looked at have such broad categories. It may be that I just have to make a judgement call on where some them should sit and clarify the assumptions I've had to make in my narrative.