Health & Safety - Injuries & Accidents

Health and Safety

Injuries/Accidents at Work

Employers have a duty under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) to report certain accidents to employees and members of the public together with specified dangerous occurrences and causes of disease.

The following types of accidents need to be reported:

  • employees incapable of work for more than 3 days as a result of an accident at work
  • employed or self employed persons killed or suffering a major injury
  • accidents to members of the public (in connection with work) where they are taken directly to hospital
  • specified dangerous occurrences (eg collapse of scaffolding, failure of lifts or lifting equipment, electrical short circuit causing a fire).
  • certain poisonings, infections and industrial disease

From 1 April 2001 employers, employees and any other person will be able to report all accidents to a national incident centre. This centre will take the details and make them available to the appropriate enforcing authority either by access to the web site, or notification by fax for immediately notifiable accidents.

Notify the accident to the Incident Contact Centre (ICC) direct by one of the following:

RIDDOR documentation is available from the HSE website (external site, opens in new window)

(There is no longer any need for a written confirmation by form F2508.)

For employers wishing to notify over 3 day injuries:

These can be notified as above, or may be submitted by post to:

Incident Contact Centre

Caerphilly Busines Park

Caerphilly

CF83 3GG

A copy of F2508 form is available to view, and print, please click here (PDF file, opens in new window)

Whenever accidents occur to anyone on your premises or to employees at any place, a record should be kept.

Accident books are available from The Stationery Office - see Useful Contacts