From 1st October 2013 the requirements to report accidents to the HSE under RIDDOR have changed. The main changes will be to simplify the reporting requirements in the following areas:
- The classification of ‘major injuries’ to workers replaced with a shorter list of ‘specified injuries’
- The existing schedule detailing 47 types of industrial disease to be replaced with eight categories of reportable work-related illness
- Fewer types of ‘dangerous occurrence’ will require reporting (more…)