RIDDORHealth and Safety Advice for Stonemasons

Stonemasonry Department 2011

What is RIDDOR?

The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and

Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995

(RIDDOR) are designed to provide a single set

of reporting requirements to all work activities in

Great Britain.

The regulations are made under the Health and

Safety at Work Act 1974. The main purpose of

the regulations is to generate reports to the

Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and to

local authorities. This allows individual incidents

and trends to be examined so that authorities

can develop strategies to prevent future injuries

and ill health.

What Should be Reported?

The following list provides examples of what must be reported under RIDDOR:

The death of any person as a result of an accident, whether or not they are at

work.

Someone who is at work suffers a major injury as a result of an accident.

Someone who is not at work (a member of the public) suffers an injury as a result

of an accident and is taken from the scene to the hospital.

A dangerous occurrence takes place.

Someone at work is unable to do the full range of their normal duties for more

than seven days as a result of an injury caused by an accident at work.

The death of an employee if this occurs some time after a reportable injury which

led to the death (not longer than one year afterwards).

A person at work suffers a disease provided a doctor diagnoses the disease and

the persons job involves an activity which may have caused the disease.

Reporting Responsibilities

Any accidents or incidents must be reported by the responsible person. The

responsible person is normally the employer or the person in control of the premises.

To help the responsible person carry out their duties, employers need to be given clear

guidelines about reporting accidents and cases of ill health to management. If you are

unsure who the responsible person is on your site speak to your manager.

Major Injuries

The following list provides examples of what RIDDOR considers a major injury

Fracture other than to fingers, thumbs or toes

Amputation

Dislocation of the shoulder, hip, knee or spine

Loss of sight (temporary or permanent)

Chemical burn to the eye or any penetrating

injury to the eye

Injury resulting in an electric shock or electrical burn leading to unconsciousness and

requiring resuscitation or admittance to hospital

Unconsciousness caused by asphyxia or exposure to a harmful substance or

biological agent

Acute illness requiring medical treatment or loss of consciousness arising from

absorption of any substance by inhalation, ingestion or through the skin

Dangerous OccurrencesThe following list provides examples of what

RIDDOR considers a dangerous occurrence:

Unintended collapse of any building or structure

under construction

Explosion or fire causing suspension of normal

work for over 24 hours

Sudden spillage of flammable liquid, gas or other

substances which may damage health

Collapse, overturning or failure of load bearing

parts of lifts and lifting machinery

Plant or equipment coming into contact with

overhead power lines

Electrical short circuit or overload causing fire or

explosion

Reportable Diseases

The following list provides examples of what

RIDDOR considers a reportable disease:

Certain poisonings

Some skin diseases such as occupational

dermatitis or skin cancers

Lung diseases including occupational asthma,

pneumoconiosis or silicosis

Infections such as leptospirosis and tetanus

Other conditions such as occupational cancer,

certain muscoskeletal disorders and hand-arm

vibration (vibration white finger)

The Accident Book

Whenever an accident (no matter how trivial) occurs

on a construction site the following details must be

entered in the sites accident book:

The injured persons name, address and occupation

The place where the accident happened

The date and time of the accident

How the accident happened

The details of the person filling in the book

The accident book can be completed by the injured

person or by someone acting on their behalf. The

book should be kept somewhere where it is easily

accessible (usually in the site hut).

Injury/Dangerous Occurrence

The form shown above is used to report injuries or dangerous occurrences. Your lecturer

will now give you a case study which you should use to complete a practice form

Reporting Disease

Developed by The Stonemasonry DepartmentCity of Glasgow College

2012

The information in this presentation has been sourced from:

Getting to Grips with Manual Handling, A Short Guide: HSE Publications

Health and Safety in Construction: HSE Publications

Construction Intelligence Report: HSE Publications

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2793/contents/made 

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