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