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Consultation on changes to simplify RIDDOR launched
23 January 2013
The Health and Safety Executive has opened a 12- week consultation on proposals to simplify and clarify the reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences.
The Health and Safety Executive has opened a 12- week consultation on proposals to simplify and clarify the reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences.
The proposals include self-employed people no longer having to report injuries or illness to themselves, and the removal of both the duty on employers to report dangerous occurrences outside of high-risk sectors/activities and requirements to report most occupational diseases.
The need to report all fatal injuries to workers and those to members of the public as a result of a work activity would remain, as would the duty to report major injuries to workers.
David Charnock, HSE's consultation manager, said: “We are proposing to simplify the requirements by removing the duty to report in those areas where the information can be better obtained from other sources or where the data isn't particularly useful to the regulators. The proposals do not indicate any change in HSE's policy or strategic objectives, and we will continue to focus our investigations on those incidents that meet our published selection criteria.â€
The consultation on proposals to change RIDDOR reporting requirements from 2013 is open from 2 August until 28 October 2012.
The proposals include self-employed people no longer having to report injuries or illness to themselves, and the removal of both the duty on employers to report dangerous occurrences outside of high-risk sectors/activities and requirements to report most occupational diseases.
The need to report all fatal injuries to workers and those to members of the public as a result of a work activity would remain, as would the duty to report major injuries to workers.
David Charnock, HSE's consultation manager, said: “We are proposing to simplify the requirements by removing the duty to report in those areas where the information can be better obtained from other sources or where the data isn't particularly useful to the regulators. The proposals do not indicate any change in HSE's policy or strategic objectives, and we will continue to focus our investigations on those incidents that meet our published selection criteria.â€
The consultation on proposals to change RIDDOR reporting requirements from 2013 is open from 2 August until 28 October 2012.
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