The council’s food and safety team looks into accidents that happen in workplaces where they are the enforcing authority.
If you are an employer, self-employed or in control of work premises, you have to report certain work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. The information gathered helps the council to identify how and why the accident happened. It also helps to prevent similar accidents occurring in the future. The council can also give advice on how to reduce injury, ill health and accidental loss.
Under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR), the following work-related incidents should be reported:
- deaths
- major injuries
- over three day injuries: - where an employee or self-employed person has an accident and the person is away from work or unable to work normally for more than three days.
- injuries to members of the public where they are taken straight to hospital
- work-related diseases
- dangerous occurrences
Examples of major injury
Examples of work related disease
Examples of a dangerous occurrence
How soon do I have to report the incident?
How do I report an accident?