The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has formally
implemented changes to simplify the mandatory reporting of workplace injuries
for businesses.
Changes to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous
Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995 clarify and simplify the reporting
requirements, while ensuring that the data collected gives an accurate and
useful picture of workplace incidents.
The change affects all employers - including the
self-employed. New web-based information and guidance is now available on the
HSE website at: http://www.hse.gov.uk/riddor/index.htm
The main changes are in the following areas:
- The classification of 'major injuries' to workers replaced with a shorter list of 'specified injuries'
- The existing schedule detailing 47 types of industrial disease replaced with eight categories of reportable work-related illness
- Fewer types of 'dangerous occurrence' require reporting
There are no significant changes to the reporting
requirements for:
- Fatal accidents
- Accidents to non-workers (members of the public)
- Accidents resulting in a worker being unable to perform their normal range of duties for more than seven days
How an incident at work is reported and the criteria that
determine whether an incident should be investigated remain the same.
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