Workplace Accident Reporting
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurences
Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR)
The law requires certain work-related injuries, diseases and
dangerous occurences to be reported to the enforcing authority for
health and safety (this may be the local council or the Health and
Safety Executive).
From 6th April 2012, RIDDOR's
over-three-day injury reporting requirement changed. The trigger
point has now increased from over three days to over seven days
incapacitation (not counting the day on which the accident
happened). Incapacitiation is where a worker is unable to
work or doing their normal work.
You must still keep a record
of the accident if the worker has been incapacitated for
more than three consecutive days. If you are an employer,
who must keep an accident book under the Social Security (Claims
and Payments) Regulations 1979, that record will be enough.
A new leaflet Reporting
accidents and incidents at work explains the change.
What needs to be
reported?
The following incidents need to be
reported:
- Deaths
- Major injuries
- Over-seven day injuries, the
report must be made within 15 days of the accident.
- Injuries to people not at work
- where a member of the public or person who is not at
work has died, or is injured and they are taken from the scene of
an accident to hospital for treatment.
- Occupational diseases
- Dangerous occurrences
- Gas incidents
More details of which incidents are reportable
can be found on the HSE
website
How to report and
accident
The main way to report an accident is on-line
via the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) website:
Online - Report an accident at
work (external website)
All incidents can be reported on-line but a
telephone service remains for reporting fatal or major
injuries only:
By phone - 0845 300 9923 (
Monday to Friday 8.30am - 5pm)
Completed Accident Report Forms (Form
F2508) can be sent via post to:
Incident Contact Centre, Caerphilly Business
Park, Caerphilly, CF83 3GG