HSE publishes detailed guidance on RIDDOR changes
Health & Safety Update 18/01/2012
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published new detailed
guidance on the upcoming changes being made to the Reporting of
Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995
(RIDDOR).
The new material is available to download from the HSE website,
and details the changes affecting when incidents need to be
reported, which are due to come into force on 6 April this
year.
The new regulations will lengthen the over-three-day injury
reporting requirement. Companies will now be required only to
report incidents that have resulted in the incapacitation of a
worker for over seven days (excluding the day on which the accident
happened) as opposed to the current three-day incapacitation
requirement.
The HSE classifies incapacitation as something that means a
worker is absent or unable to carry out the tasks that are
reasonable expectations of their everyday occupation.
The over-seven-day accidents must be reported with in 15 days of
the accident taking place.
Despite the time frame for reporting accidents being changed,
all employers – and any other body with responsibilities under
RIDDOR – will still be required to keep a record of all injuries
that have resulted in incapacitations of over three days. An
employer’s accident book will be deemed to be sufficient
record.
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