Injuries and accidents at work

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Employers have a duty under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) to report certain accidents to employees and members of the public together with specified dangerous occurrences and causes of disease.

The following types of accidents need to be reported:

• employees incapable of work for more than 3 days as a result of an accident at work
• employed or self employed persons killed or suffering a major injury
• accidents to members of the public (in connection with work) where they are taken directly to hospital
• specified dangerous occurrences (eg collapse of scaffolding, failure of lifts or lifting equipment, electrical short circuit causing a fire)
• certain poisonings, infections and industrial disease

Since 1 April 2001 employers, employees and any other person have been able to report all accidents to a national incident centre. This centre will takes details and makes them available to the appropriate enforcing authority either by access to the web site, or notification by fax for immediately notifiable accidents.

How do you notify an injury or accident?

Notify the accident to the Incident Contact Centre (ICC) direct by one of the following:

• Telephone - 0845 300 99 23
• Internet - www.riddor.gov.uk
• Fax - 0845 300 99 24
• E-Mail - riddor@natbrit.com

RIDDOR documentation is available from the HSE website.

Last updated: 16 February 2011