Record and report an accident or incident
What needs to be reported?
Certain problems and incidents have to be reported to the authorities under the Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR).
These incidents include:
- Death - where someone is killed as a result of an accident related to work. This includes work-related deaths as a result of physical violence.
- Major injury - this includes fractures, amputations, loss of sight and loss of consciousness.
- Dangerous occurrence - these are events that may not have caused injury, but clearly could have done so. They include such occurrences as sudden release of materials from a pressurised system or pipework, some kinds of fire and explosions, failure of a load-bearing part of a crane, collapse of part of a building or of scaffolding.
- Over three-day injury - this is where an employee or a self-employed person working on your premises suffers an injury that results in them being away from work, or unable to do the full range of duties, for more than three days.
- Disease - this is where a doctor notifies you that your employee is suffering from a reportable work-related disease. For examples of types of diseases, see the page in this guide on how to report a disease.
- Gas incidents - this is where a person dies or suffers a major injury as a result of gas that you distributed, filled, imported or supplied. If you install gas appliances registered with the Council for Registered Installers (CORGI), you must report any gas appliances or fittings that you think could cause death or major injury eg through the accidental leakage of gas.
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