Public consultation on simplifying RIDDOR reporting requirements

The HSE has since been asked for a fuller review of the regulations by groups that include the CBI, trade unions, the Federation of Small Businesses and the Chartered Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).

In its consultation, HSE is proposing that the new reporting requirements:

• focus on operational needs (that is, ensure that enforcing authorities are notified of individual incidents which are serious enough as to require regulatory attention);
• ensure there is sufficient data for HSE and others to act in a riskbased manner, and for statistical and  intelligence purposes to meet European and other international obligations;
• simplify certain reporting requirements;
• provide clear guidance, giving examples of what must be reported and what does not have to be reported and by what deadline. 

The consultation period ends on 28 October.

The proposals also seek to implement the changes recommended in the 2010 government report, Common Sense, Common Safety, by re-examining whether RIDDOR is the best approach to providing an accurate national picture of workplace accidents.