Reportable Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR)

Question 1

What is RIDDOR?

Answer 1

• it is the law
• requires employers, and other people in charge of work premises, to report and keep records of any incidents (i.e. accidents or deaths)

Question 2

What needs to be recorded when an incident happens?

Answer 2

• Work-related accidents which cause deaths
• Work-related accidents which cause certain serious injuries (reportable injuries)
• Diagnosed cases of certain industrial diseases
• Certain dangerous occurrences’ (incidents with the potential to cause harm)

Question 3

What does HSE require at work?

Answer 3

The HSE requires a responsible person, i.e. the person in control of premises where the accident/incident took place
- must report without delay
- normally by telephone the details to the HSE or Environmental
Health Department.

Question 4

What are the following must be reported?

Answer 4

• All work related fatalities (employee, self-employed, member of the public).
• When a member of the public is taken directly to hospital.
• when a person suffers a work related Major injury at work.
• All incidents classified, under the regulations, as a Dangerous
  Occurrence, whether or not injury occurred.
• All injuries where the employee is absent from work or unable to do their normal work for more than three consecutive days (including non-work days).
• When a doctor notifies you that your employee has a re-portable
  Work-related Disease.

Question 5

What is a major re-portable accident?

Answer 5

• any fractures, other than, thumb or toe

Question 6

What can or cannot be reported or recorded?

Answer 6

• over-three-day incapacitation, accidents must be recorded, but not reported where they result in a worker being incapacitated for more than three consecutive days
• over 7 day incapacitation Of Work, accidents must be reported where they result in an employee or self-employed person being away from work or unable to perform their work duties for more than seven consecutive days as a result of their injury

Question 7

What are dangerous occurrences?

Answer 7

• Explosion.
• Collapse of scaffold over 5m high.
• Train collision with another vehicle.
• Unintended collapse of a building.
• Failure of fairground equipment.
• plant or equipment coming into
• contact with overhead power lines.
• The collapse, overturning or failure of load-bearing parts
  of lifts and lifting equipment.
• The accidental release of any substance which could cause
  injury to any person.

Question 8

What are gas incidents?

Answer 8

• An accidental leakage of gas;
• Incomplete combustion of gas or;
• Inadequate removal of products of the combustion of
  gas.
• Unsafe gas appliances and fittings should be reported
  using AN online form

Question 9

types of re-portable Diseases Occupational diseases

Answer 9

• Carpal tunnel syndrome;
• Severe cramp of the hand or forearm;
• Occupational dermatitis;
• Hand-arm vibration syndrome;
• Occupational asthma;
• Tendinitis or tenosynovitis of the hand
  or forearm;
• Any occupational cancer;
• Any disease attributed to an occupational exposure to a biological Agent.

Question 10

Who enforces RIDDOR ?

Answer 10

• the enforcing authority is the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)!
• OR the Environmental Health Department

Question 11

what are the different types of reporting procedures?

Answer 11

• Written report sent within 10 days using Form F2508 for death, serious injury or dangerous occurrence.
• Written report sent within 10 days using Form F2508A for an employee suffering from a work-related disease.
• Written report within 10 days using Form F2508 for ANY Injury resulting in >3 days off work.

Question 12

What to do with records?

Answer 12

If a report is made, the company MUST keep a record of the occurrence for 3 YEARS after the date the incident happened.