Reporting and recording are legal requirements. The report tells the enforcing authorities for occupational health and safety (HSE and local authorities) about serious incidents and cases of disease. Records also help to prevent injuries and ill health, and control costs from accidental loss.
What does RIDDOR mean in health and safety?
RIDDOR – Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013.
Does RIDDOR come under health and safety?
RIDDOR is the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 and was revised from 1st October 2013 (RIDDOR 2013). This legislation applies across the whole of health and social care sector aimed at employers, and those with responsibility under the duty of the act.
How does RIDDOR link to health and social care?
RIDDOR procedures mean that specific incidents and illnesses must be recorded accurately. As a member of staff in a care home, you need to be aware of what is and isn’t a specified accident or illness. This is in relation to your interactions with your residents as well as your general health.
Where should you report your health and safety concerns?
If you think health and safety laws are being broken, putting you or others at risk of serious harm, you can report your concerns to the HSE (or the local authority). Reporting concerns to the HSE can be done through an online form or via telephone.
What are the main points of RIDDOR?
RIDDOR is the law that requires employers, and other people in charge of work premises, to report and keep records of:
- work-related accidents which cause deaths.
- work-related accidents which cause certain serious injuries (reportable injuries)
- diagnosed cases of certain industrial diseases; and.
What is a cost of poor health and safety?
Costs of poor health and safety at work Millions of working days are lost due to work-related illness and injury. Thousands of people die from occupational diseases. Around a million workers self-report suffering from a work-related illness. Several hundred thousand workers are injured at work.
Does a near miss have to be reported to HSE?
In law, you must report certain workplace injuries, near-misses and cases of work-related disease to HSE. This duty is under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, known as RIDDOR.
Why do you need a health and safety record for RIDDOR?
The legislation encourages people to follow health and safety procedures to help keep everyone safe while they’re at work. A consistent health and safety record helps to protect the image and reputation of the company. In order to comply with RIDDOR, you need to report certain types of incidents and injuries to the HSE.
What do employers need to know about RIDDOR?
Employers and others are required to report deaths, certain types of injuries, some occupational diseases and dangerous occurrences that ‘arise out of or in connection with work’. When an accident is reported via RIDDOR, this alerts the enforcing authorities to investigate the more serious incidents.
How much RIDDOR is reported in health and social care?
According to the HSE, it is estimated that about one third of RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013) reports in health and social care are incorrectly recorded.
How to protect your workplace from these RIDDOR incidents?
Educate yourself about good health and safety practices, as well as the procedures and knowledge required for reporting to RIDDOR. With these practices, as well as an awareness of what RIDDOR requires from employers, you will be fully prepared to effectively manage health and safety at work. We were unable to load Disqus.
