RIDDOR
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences
It is extremely important that you follow your Company’s Health and Safety Procedure for reporting and recording work-related accidents or illnesses caused by work. In addition to completing the accident book/form, it may be necessary to report the accident or illness to the Health and Safety Executive under RIDDOR.
As a reminder, The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) places a legal duty on your Company to report:
- Deaths
- Major injuries
- Over-3-day injuries – where an employee or self-employed person is away from work or unable to perform their normal work duties for more than 3 consecutive days
- Injuries to members of the public or people not at work where they are taken from the scene of an accident to hospital
- Some work-related diseases
- Dangerous occurrences – where something happens that does not result in an injury, but could have done
- Gas Safe registered gas fitters must also report dangerous gas fittings they find, and gas conveyors/suppliers must report some flammable gas incidents
RIDDOR applies to all work activities but not all incidents are reportable. If someone has had an accident in a work situation where you are in charge, and you are unsure whether to report it then please contact your Human Resources Department for further advice or the Health and Safety Executive Incident Contact Centre (ICC) on 0845 300 99 23.
For information, in cases of death, major injury, or dangerous occurrences, you must notify the Health and Safety Executive without delay. Cases of over-three day injuries must be notified within ten days of the incident occurring. Cases of disease should be reported as soon as a doctor notifies you that your employee suffers from a reportable work-related disease.
Please note however that your Company may have different timescales for reporting different types of incidents and these must be followed.
A record of any reportable injury, disease or dangerous occurrence must be kept. This must include the date and method of reporting; the date, time and place of the event; personal details of those involved; and a brief description of the nature of the event or disease.
If your Company chooses to report the incident by telephone or through the web site, the Incident Contact Centre will send you a copy of the record held within the database. You will be able to request amendments to the record if you feel the report is not fully accurate.
Should you be unsure about any aspect of the above, then please contact your Human Resources Department for further advice.
New Online Reporting From September 2011
From 12 September 2011, all other reportable work-related injuries and incidents under RIDDOR (the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995) will move to a predominantly online system, with a suite of seven forms available on HSE's website to make the statutory reporting process quick and easy. Businesses will still be able to notify fatal and major incidents and injuries by phone following changes to reporting arrangements, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have confirmed.
For further information visit the HSE site.
