Reporting an accident

The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) place a duty on employers, the self-employed and those in control of premises to report certain types of accidents, diseases and incidents. These are:

• Deaths;
• Major injuries;
• ‘Over 3 day injuries’ – where a person is unable to return to work because of an injury or illness sustained during a work activity;
• Injuries to members of the public, resulting from the work activity, where they are taken to hospital;
• Work related diseases
• Dangerous Occurrences – where something happens which could have resulted in a reportable injury.

The Health and Safety Executive have set up an Incident Contact Centre (ICC) which deals with the reporting of all accidents, whichever the enforcing authority. If you need to report an incident under any of the above categories, or think you might, you should contact them, initially by telephone, to report it and for further advice. You can also fill in the report form on their website.

ICC contacts

Telephone: 0845 300 9923

Internet: http://www.riddor.gov.uk/ or via the HSE website: www.hse.gov.uk

Email: riddor@natbrit.com

Fax: 0845 300 9924

Post: Incident Contact Centre

Caerphilly Business Park

Caerphilly CF83 3GG

The ICC is open between 08.30 and 17.00 Monday to Friday