Do I need to report that?
Did you know that if one of your members is affected by either a ‘near miss’ or an injury that leads to hospital treatment, you may be legally obliged to report it?
If any adverse event was preceded by, or can be attributed to, a management system failure (such as a lack of equipment maintenance), this is classed as reportable under RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurences Regulations 2013
Businesses are legally required to report certain accidents etc and can be fined if found not to be doing so. In 2011, a large supermarket chain was fined £34 000 for not reporting accidents properly and a further £47 000 in 2015 for the same offence.
The purpose of this law is firstly to allow the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) and local authorities to monitor accident trends, identify how risks arise and investigate serious accidents. Secondly it acts as a deterrent for businesses wishing to ignore H&S. Having a legal duty to report incidents of a certain nature then means you could get investigated and fined further. For instance, the same supermarket mentioned above was fined £500 000 in 2016 for a reportable incident.
The only way of reducing your duty to report to RIDDOR is to have your H&S and maintenance at such a level that incidents rarely occur, or even if they do, are not due to the business failing their H&S responsibilities.
Do you know when you need to report and are you doing it?
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