RIDDOR Explained

RIDDOR stands for Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995.  These regulations govern accident reporting for employers, self employed people and people in control of premises.

RIDDOR is a compulsory reporting system for all work-related personal injuries.  For instance, companies are required by law to report employee road traffic accidents which result in the employee being off work for more than three days in a row.

RIDDOR places on employees the legal duty to report work-related deaths, major injuries, over three-day-injuries, work related diseases and dangerous occurrences (near miss accidents).

The information which employers supply to RIDDOR enables the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and local authorities to identify how and why risk occurs and if necessary to investigate serious accidents.  RIDDOR can also help to provide advice on how to make the workplace a safer environment and on how to reduce injury and ill health in the workplace.

Legislation has been under review and the question of whether work related driving accidents should be included alongside other employee accidents has been debated.

A car accident occurs almost every minute in the UK, often with life-changing consequences.  If you have been involved in a road traffic accident while you have been working you should seek the advice of an experience personal injury lawyer.