4.3 Recording and Reporting Incidents

Question 1

RIDDOR’s main purpose is to generate reports to the enforcing authorities to:

Answer 1

 alert them to individual incidents; and  to provide data for trend analysis.

Question 2

In general terms RIDDOR requires

Answer 2

a responsible person (as defined in Regulation 3) to follow a reporting procedure (laid down in Schedule 1) to inform the enforcing authority of specified events

Question 3

RIDDOR-reportable specified events are…

Answer 3

DeathsSpecified injuriesOver-7-day injuriesTaken from the scene of an accident to hospitalWork-related diseasesDangerous occurrencesGas Safe registered gas fitters must also report dangerous gas fittings

Question 4

The easiest way to report a RIDDOR-reportable an accident, in most cases, is

Answer 4

via the appropriate online report form at www.hse.gov.uk/riddor

Question 5

Accident Incident Rate (AIR) This is the most commonly used accident rate, it is an expression of

Answer 5

the number of defined accidents in a given period per thousand employees

Question 6

Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) Where there may be many part time workers, long shifts and overtime working the frequency rate may be a more reliable indicator than the incidence rate. The frequency rate is

Answer 6

the number of defined accidents in a period per 100,000 person hours worked