RIDDOR
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013
The regulations requiring employers to report specified workplace injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences to the HSE, within set timescales, and to keep records.
RIDDOR requires the responsible person (usually the employer, or the person in control of the premises) to report: deaths; specified injuries (fractures other than fingers, thumbs and toes; amputations; sight loss; crush injuries to head or torso; serious burns; scalping; loss of consciousness from head injury or asphyxia; injuries from confined space work); injuries causing more than seven consecutive days of incapacity (not counting the day of the accident); injuries to non-workers taken to hospital; specified occupational diseases (carpal tunnel from vibration, HAVS, occupational dermatitis, asthma, tendonitis, and cancers and diseases from biological agents); and dangerous occurrences from a list that includes lifting equipment collapse or failure, scaffold collapse, contact with overhead lines, unintended collapse of a structure, and explosion or fire causing more than 24 hours' stoppage.
Deaths, specified injuries and dangerous occurrences are reported without delay (by phone for deaths and specified injuries, otherwise online within ten days); over-seven-day injuries within 15 days. Over-three-day injuries are recorded but not reported. Records of every reportable event are kept for three years. Reporting is a legal duty and failing to report is prosecuted in its own right; it is also the moment the HSE may decide to investigate, so the internal investigation, the RAMS, the toolbox talk records and the inspection records need to be in order before the report goes in.
Where it comes from
- Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 regs.4 to 12 and Schedules 1 and 2.
- HSE guidance INDG453 (Reporting accidents and incidents at work).
Questions people ask
Is a broken finger reportable?
Not as a specified injury; fractures to fingers, thumbs and toes are excluded. It becomes reportable if it keeps the person off normal work for more than seven consecutive days.
Who reports an injury to a subcontractor's employee?
The subcontractor, as the injured person's employer. The principal contractor records it and often reports dangerous occurrences on their site, but the injury report is the employer's duty. Agree who does what before it happens.
RIDDOR, handled on a phone
SiteLynx puts the RAMS, permits, inspections, audits, plant checks and records behind every term in this glossary on the crew's phones, signed on site, with a PDF at the end. 14 days free, no card.
Start free trial