Health and Safety-accidents

Accident reporting, investigation and RIDDOR 95

RIDDOR 95 stands for the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995. Reporting accidents and ill health at work is a legal requirement. The information enables the enforcing authorities to identify where and how risks arise and to investigate serious accidents. The enforcing authorities can then help and advise you on preventive action to reduce injury, ill health and accidental loss. You must report all:

  • Deaths
  • Major injuries
  • Accidents resulting in any staff member having 3 days off work
  • Notifiable diseases
  • Dangerous occurrences
  • Injuries to customers/Members of the public requiring removal to hospital via an ambulance 

 

For more details on reporting requirements the Incident Contact Centre Website is a source of further information and also enables you to complete the relevant form.

 

All accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences must be reported to the Incident Contact Centre. The Contact Centre was established on 1 April 2001 as a single point of contact for receiving all incidents in the UK.

 

You can report incidents by any of the following routes:

Web site see above link

Telephone: 0845 3009923
Fax: 0845 3009924

 

The Incident Contact Centre will forward details of incidents to the relevant enforcing authority, which is Broxbourne Council if your business is:

  • Office based
  • Retail or wholesale
  • Warehousing
  • Hotel and catering
  • Sports or leisure
  • A place of worship
  • Pre-school child care
  • Mobile vending

 

For all other types of business it will be forwarded to the area office of the Health and Safety Executive for investigation.

 

Further information is available on the HSE web site