The presentation states that the responsible people (employers, self-employed and people in control of work premises) is accountable to report serious accidents, occupational diseases and other dangerous occurrences inside the workplace.

1. Health and Safety
Executive
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and
Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
(RIDDOR)
Ron Griffiths
HM Inspector of Health and Safety
HSE, Field Operations Directorate

2. Consequences?
Boy, 10, Dies on School
Field Trip – The Sun (2007)
Ban scrums in school rugby to stop brain injuries -
professor – The Scotsman (2010)
Pupil critical after falling through
school roof while trying to retrieve a
football – Daily Mail
Girl Dies after Slipping
on Ice – The Sun (2009)

3. RIDDOR purpose
• Guide regulatory activities
– investigations & enforcement where
appropriate
– intelligence (planning, strategies,
targeting, developing guidance)
– statistics (trends, evidence base, target
activities, monitor progress)
• Meet legal obligations (European & UK law)
• Feed into employers’ health and safety
management systems show how risks arise
and show trends to inform accident
prevention work

4. RIDDOR barriers
• Lack of awareness
• Complexity & scale of
RIDDOR
• Potential HSE investigation –
ramifications of enforcement
?
• Liability to personal injury
claims Under reporting
• Statistical value (benefits) not
apparent

5. RIDDOR
• Under reporting
• 2009/10 – Non-fatal injuries to employees
57% (58% 08/09, 50% 07/08)

6. RIDDOR
Statistics sources:
• https://handson.hse.gov.uk/hse/public/home.aspx
• http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/index.htm

7. What to report?
Regulatory authority needs to be informed of the following
‘arising out of or in connection with work activity’:
• Fatality
• Major injury
• Hospital treatment
• Dangerous occurrence
• Over three days – unable to do normal work (Lord
Young Report – Consultation on the proposal to amend to over 7
days)
• Disease – (employee only) diagnosed by medic,
engaged in listed work activity

8. RIDDOR
• Deaths & Injuries – Necessary elements:
• Accident
• That arises out of or is connected to the work
activity
• Results in a death, major or O3D * injury for
people at work (Not day of accident, 3
consecutive days, need not immediately follow
the day of the accident)
• Death, taken from the site to a hospital for
treatment – not at work

9. RIDDOR
• Occupational Diseases:
• Reg 5, Schedule 3
• Must be diagnosed by a registered
medical practioner (doctor)
• Sufferer must be doing the work activity
listed for that disease – eg hand arm
vibration syndrome – must work with
vibrating tools – grinding, etc.

10. How to report? – the process
• Responsible person (e.g.
employer or person in
control of premises)
• Quickest practicable
means (e.g. telephone,
fax, email) to the Contact
Centre (ICC / single point
of contact
• www.hse.gov.uk/riddor

11. How to report?
• Use of appropriate forms (F2508
or F2508A)
• Adequate details
– Contact details for follow up
– Sufficient details to inform
investigation selection criteria
e.g. agent involved,
circumstances,

12. Dangerous occurrences
RIDDOR Regulation 3, Schedule 2(1)
• Schedule 2 of RIDDOR
• DO 1 – Lifting Machinery
• DO 2 – Failure of closed vessel –
potential to cause death
• DO 5 – Electrical short circuit –
fire & explosion – stoppage of
plant for more than 24 hours
RIDDOR Regulation 3, Schedule 2(1)

13. RIDDOR
Dangerous Occurrences
• DO 19 – Explosion and Fire – In any plant or
premises that results in suspension of normal
work for more than 24 hours.
• DO 20 – Escape of Flammable Substances –
Inside a building (100 KG liquid, 10 KG liquid
above its boiling point, 10KG gas) – Open air –
500 KGs (Flammable = CHIP 2002)
• DO 21 – Escape of Substances – Any substance
in a quantity sufficient to cause death, major
injury or any other damage to the health of any
person.

14. RIDDOR
• Key facts:-
• 152 fatal accidents at work
• 121, 430 other injuries to employees (233,000 –
Labour Force Survey)
• 28.5 million working days lost (1.2 per worker)
• 23.4 million due to work-related ill health
• 1033 Offences prosecuted by HSE (287 LA)
• 15,881 – Enforcement Notices

15. Investigation selection criteria
• HSE reviews F2508/F2508A
• Assesses against mandatory
investigation selection criteria
• Allocates for investigation.
• Mandatory investigations:-
• Deaths, certain major injuries
automatically considered for
investigation (other major and O3D
injury reports should be checked for
indicators of possible serious breaches
of health and safety law).

16. RIDDOR - Guidance

17. RIDDOR Q&A
• Arising out of, or connected to the work
activity?
• Accident?
• Reportable injury?
• Reportable occupational disease?
• Who reports?

18. RIDDOR – Q&A 1
• Assault on student – Reportable?
• NO
• Verbal assault on staff member – Reportable?
• NO
• Occupational stress – Reportable?
• NO
• Chair breaks – person at work injures spine –
Reportable?
• Yes – Major or O3D

19. RIDDOR Q&A 2
• Student injured because of faulty college
equipment when on field trip – who reports?
• Person in control of premises
• Lecturer injured when slips on floor when wet
after cleaning – reportable?
• Yes – if Major or O3D
• Student climbs college wall for a bet and falls
injuring themselves – Reportable?
• No

20. RIDDOR Q&A 3
• Member of staff absent for 5 days after
physical assault – reportable?
• Yes (Physical or psychological?)
• Student has seizure, falls to ground
injuring head and is taken to hospital and
receives treatment – Reportable?
• NO

21. Summary
Not all RIDDOR
reportable
Provide reports promptly
Not all reportable incidents will
be investigated by HSE
All incidents should be analysed
and lessons learned & shared

22. RIDDOR Consultation

23. RIDDOR Consultation
• O3D to O7D
• Lord Young “Common Sense, Common
Safety”
• O7D – aligns with “fit note” (excludes the
day of the accident).
• http://www.hse.gov.uk/consult/condocs/cd233.htm

24. RIDDOR - Consultation
• The impact assessment’s main findings
are that, if implemented, Lord Young’s
recommended change will result in a 28%
reduction in the number of reports made
by business to the regulators, realising:-
• a net benefit to business of £1.7
millions over a ten-year equivalent
period and
• a net saving to central and local
government of £3.8 millions over the
same ten-year period.

25. Questions?