Accident reporting - what do you need to do??

[Marcellus]

My eldest is at college and they've been covering Health and Safety and and accidents at work.

She's saying that if there is an accident in a salon then the salon must report the accident to the council within 24hours.

Is this true??

When I was in manufacturing we had to record it, investigate it, implement corrective actions and make all our records available for inspection....... is this not the case anymore or is it different for different industries?

[scirocco265]

You have to report any 'serious' accident to RIDDOR as soon as possible (but I think definitely within something like 10 days). RIDDOR (part of the HSE effectively) stands for the Reporting of Disease and Dangerous Occurences Regulations. Where there is a 'serious' accident (death, amputation etc or illness resulting in 3 or more days off from work due to an at work injury), it needs to be reported and then someone from the EHO comes down and will look through records, investigate accordingly. The regulations don't apply to RTA's, even if the person was commuting/travelling for business and it doesn't apply to every single accident. However, all accidents should be recorded by the Company for it's own records and documentation should be kept.

Edited by scirocco265 on Wednesday 23 September 19:49

[cazzer]

That woould be a hell of a salon accident to cause an amputation.

[Mr POD]

google the governments own health and safety executive website.

[Trophybloo]

Amputation only counts on hand or foot if you go beyond the first joint i.e. you can lose a tip without needing to report unless you aren't able to perform your NORMAL job for MORE THAN 3 days (including weekends)(the definition is quite complex) . This does not mean that as a woodmachinist your remaining stump counts as a new first joint- all subsequent 'whittling away' is reprtable.
As you may have guessed I'm a H&S consultant

[Scraggles]

in a H&S consultancy of sorts, one of the senior managers insists on a face to face "chat" with anyone who has had a reportable accident to try and reduce future accidents, for some reason the reported accident rate has dropped quite a bit

reporting on site is a right pain, last one was 90 minutes to fill out some forms which were reported back to my company as I found a danger and headbutted it just to make sure....

last accident, turned into a low lying support girder, nice L shaped hole in my head, fking hurt... reported to site and they looked at their watch, I could goto the first aid people, get stitched up like last time and be out just in time for the rush hour in the wrong part of london....

went to the bogs, bogroll and water.... soon healed up

[BGB autosport]

I too am in H&S, take a look here http://www.hse.gov.uk/riddor/riddor.htm Its a common misconception that you report to RIDDOR, you dont, you report to the HSE complying with RIDDOR.

As for a Salon, they should record any accident or injury to there own staff or customer. This may just be in the standard Accident book which is easily available and take 2 mins to fill out. No point making it had to report an accident or it wont get reported.

The problem is with a salon they may not know of a 3 day reporable injury, for example, someone has a reaction to hair dye and takes 4 days off work. The first the salon knows is when a letter from the solicitor lands on the mat.
If the injury was a broken wrist from someone slipping over then they should document it and report it to the HSE pretty much immediately.