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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

    I tend to start with this:

    www.iom-world.org/.../saclassn.htm

    It was developed in conjunction with the Health and Safety Executive (who also have quite good resources about managing sickness absence on their website)

    Kind regards

    Jackie
  • in reply to Jacqueline
    Thanks Jackie, I really appreciate your input. I did look at that yesterday and for a brief moment thought I had found my answer but it pretty much mirrors the current categories on the data I have. The problem is the Health & Wellbeing at Work report has actually over-simplified the categories into:

    1. Minor Illness (for example, example colds/flu, stomach upsets, headaches and migraines)
    2. Muscoskeletal Injuries (for example neck strains and repetitive strain injury, including back pain)
    3. Stress (for example clinical depression and anxiety)
    4. Mental Ill Health
    5. Caring responsibilities for children
    6. Recurring medical conditions (for example asthma, angina & allergies)
    7. Work-/non-work-related injuries/accidents
    8. Acute medical conditions (for example stroke, heart attack and cancer)
    9. Other caring responsibilities (for example for elderly/ill relative)
    10. Absence due to non-genuine ill health (unexplained)

    So I am currently looking at each illness of my report and trying to decide which of the categories above I should assign it to. Picking out mental health and stress was pretty straight forward, but there are some illness I have no idea where to place - specifically for categories 1, 6 and 8. Translating very specific reasons into very broad ones is turning out to be trickier than I thought, but on the plus side I can cite this as example of the potential problems encountered when bench-marking data.

    Many thanks,

    Emma
  • in reply to Emma
    In a moment of clarity, which is odd for a Friday, I've just realised there are other benchmark figures I could use ... such as the ONS which will mean I can stop trying to shoehorn everything into the categories above. Thanks for taking the time to help. :)
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