Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 ( RIDDOR )
The law
RIDDOR requires you to report some work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. It applies to all work activities.
When do I need to make a report?
Death or major injury
If there is an accident connected with work and:
- Your employee, or a self-employed person working on your premises is killed or suffers a major injury (including as a result of physical violence); or
- A member of the public is killed or taken to hospital;
- You must notify the enforcing authority without delay (eg by telephone).
They will ask for brief details about your business, the injured person and the accident; and
- Within ten days you must follow this up with a completed accident report form (F2508).
Over-three-day injury
If there is an accident connected with work (including an act of physical violence) and your employee, or a self-employed person working on your premises, suffers an over-three day injury you must send a completed accident report form (F2508) to the enforcing authority within ten days.
An over-three-day injury is one which is not major but results in the injured person being away from work or unable to do the full range of their normal duties for more than three days (including any days they wouldn’t normally be expected to work such as weekends, rest days or holidays) not counting the day of the injury itself.
Disease
If a doctor notifies you that your employee suffers from a reportable work-related disease you must send a completed disease report form (F2508A) to the enforcing authority. A full list is included with the pad of report forms and in the guide to the Regulations, or you can simply ring the HSE InfoLine to check whether a disease is reportable.
Dangerous occurrence
If something happens which does not result in a reportable injury, but which clearly could have done, it may be a dangerous occurrence which must be reported immediately (eg by telephone) to the enforcing authority. A full list is included with the pad of report forms and in the guide to the Regulations, or you can simply ring the HSE InfoLine to find out.
|
