RIDDOR
- Created by: Kiwi_Universe
- Created on: 28-04-17 10:52
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- Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulation
- The main principle
- Protect workers by placing a legal responsibility on employers to provide a safe working environment.
- Key Features
- Reporting of serious injuries
- Investigating of any serious injuries
- Prosecute the employers who do not comply with the regulation
- List diseases that are noticed. Such as highly infectious diseases
- MRSA
- Messles
- Chicken Pocks
- Employers must report
- Death
- Major injuries
- Amputation
- Loss of a sence
- Broken leg
- Dislocation (If more than three days)
- Electric shock
- Unconsciousness by exposure to a harmful substance
- Illness from absorption of any substance inhale or ingested
- Incidents that require 3 or more days off work
- Diseases
- Dangerous Occurences
- Reports
- Records have to be kept for 3 years
- Reports must contain date, time and place, personal detains and who is involved and what happened.
- Reports are required because
- Meet the requirement of the law
- In case further information is required by professionals.
- Incase the employees condition gets worse
- Legal action
- To inform relatives of what has happened
- How RIDDOR improve safety in a care setting
- Good first aid provision
- Risk assessments reduce the amount of accidents
- Serious incidents reported to HSE
- HSE (Health and Safety Executive)
- HSE website
- HSE (Health and Safety Executive)
- Likely to stop trends and able to stop trends from developing
- The main principle
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