RIDDOR
HSE consultation on RIDDOR change
The Health and Safety Executive today opened a three-month
consultation on proposed changes to the Reporting of Injuries,
Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995.
Changes to RIDDOR were recommended in the Young report on health
and safety published last year, which contained a proposal to
increase the threshold for reporting workplace injuries to seven
days.
Under current rules when an employee is absent from work for
more than three days following an incident, employers are required
to report the injury to the relevant enforcing authority - either
HSE or the local council. The proposed amendment increases this
'over three day' period to over seven consecutive days.
The change would align the incident reporting threshold with
that for obtaining a 'fit note' from a GP for sickness absence, and
would ensure that someone who has suffered a reportable injury has
had a professional medical assessment.