Work Related Accidents

Certain types of accidents at work have to be reported under the Reporting of Accidents, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995. (RIDDOR). These have to be reported to the Incident Contact Centre.

When do I need to make a report?

Death or major injury

• Your employee, or a self-employed person working on your premises is killed or suffers a major injury (including as a result of physical violence); or a member of the public is killed or taken to hospital
  

Over-three-day injury

• If there is an accident at work (including an act of physical violence) and your employee, or a self-employed person working on your premises, suffers an over-three-day injury.

An over-three-day injury is one which is not major but results in the injured person being away from work or unable to do the full range of their normal duties for more than three days (including any days they wouldn't normally be expected to work such as weekends, rest days or holidays) not counting the day of the injury itself.

Disease

• If a doctor notifies you that your employee suffers from a reportable work-related disease 

Dangerous occurrence

• If something happens which does not result in a reportable injury, but which clearly could have done, it may be a dangerous occurrence which must be reported. 

Further details on the above categories can be found at the Health and Safety Executive's, Incident Contact Centre website