Reporting accidents and ill health at work is a legal requirement. The information enables the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and local authorities, to identify where and how risks arise, and to investigate serious accidents. We can then help you and provide advice on how to reduce injury, and ill health in your workplace. For most businesses, a reportable accident, dangerous occurrence, or case of disease is a comparatively rare event, although many accidents in the workplace go unreported.
Educational establishments are no exception. Members are advised to check that their employer has a report mechanism to record accidents in the workplace. As a general rule members should record all accidents that occur at work.
Under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) some accidents that occur in schools or during educational activities elsewhere, must be reported to the Health and Safety Executive.
Any employer, person who is self-employed, or person in control of work premises has legal duties under RIDDOR that require you to report and record some work-related accidents by the quickest means possible.
The following must be reported:
deaths;
major injuries;
over-3-day injuries – where an employee or self-employed person is away from work or unable to perform their normal work duties for more than 3 consecutive days;
injuries to members of the public or people not at work where they are taken from the scene of an accident to hospital;
some work-related diseases;
dangerous occurrences – where something happens that does not result in an injury, but could have done;
