Health and Safety at Work - Reporting of Accidents

Accidents, Dangerous Occurrences and Disease Notifications

The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) places a legal duty on employers, the self-employed and those in control of businesses to report work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurences.  You can report incidents in a variety of ways but telephoning is the quickest and most straightforward (tel: 0845 300 99 23), with no need to fill in a report form.  You will be sent a copy of the final report for your own records.

You can also make a report by completing an interactive form on the RIDDOR website and you will be sent a copy for your own records.  Click on the link below.

Reporting an accident to RIDDOR

What do I need to report?

The law requires the following work-related incidents to be reported:

• deaths;
• major injuries (see below);
• over 3-day injuries - where an employee or self-employed person is away from work or unable to work normally for more than 3 consecutive days;
• injuries to members of the public or people not at work where they are taken from the scene of an accident to hospital;
• some work-related diseases (see below);
• dangerous occurrences - where something happens that does not result in an injury, but could have done.

Reportable major injuries are:

• fracture other than to fingers, thumbs or toes;
• amputation;
• dislocation of the shoulder, hip, knee or spine;
• loss of sight (temporary or permanent)
• chemical or hot metal burn to the eye or any penetrating injury to the eye;
• injury resulting from an electric shock or electrical burn leading to unconsciousness or requiring resuscitation or admittance to hospital for more than 24 hours;
• any other injury: leading to hypothermia, heat-induced illness or unconsciousness; or requiring resuscitation; or requiring admittance to hospital for more than 24 hours.

Reportable diseases include:

• certain poisonings;
• some skin diseases such as occupational dermatitis, skin cancer, chrome ulcer, oil follicultis/acne;
• lung diseases including occupational asthma, farmer's lung, pneumoconiosis, asbestosis, mesothelioma;
• infections such as leptospirosis, hepatitis, tuberculosis, anthrax, legionellosis and tetanus;
• other conditions such as: occupational cancer, certain muscoskeletal disorders, decompression illness and hand-arm vibration syndrome.

Accident prevention

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