Draft guidance published in advance of changes to RIDDOR

The HSE has issued details of the proposed changes to RIDDOR 1995 that are due to come into place in October, subject to parliament approval. The main changes will simplify the reporting requirements in the following areas;-

• the classification of "major injuries" is to replaced with a shorter list of "specified injuries"
• the existing schedule covering 47 types of industrial disease is to be replaced with eight groups of reportable work-related illness
• 21 types of "dangerous occurrence" will require reporting, as opposed to the previous 27 types of incident

There will be no significant changes to the reporting requirements for fatal accidents, accidents to non workers and accidents leading to a worker being unable to perform their normal range of duties for more than seven days.