Accidents in the Workplace:

Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences

The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) requires the employer, self employed or person in control of a work premises to report some work-related accidents, disease and dangerous occurrences.

When do I make a report   

You need to report the following:

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; or

·A member of the public is killed or taken to hospital.

·You must notify the ·Incident Contact Centre (ICC) without delay (e.g. by telephone), and within 10 days follow this up with a completed accident report form (F2508).

Over-three-day injury

If there is an accident connected with work 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 ICC within 10 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 ICC.

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 that must be reported immediately (e.g. by telephone) to the ICC then followed up with a completed accident report form (F2508).