HSE confirms RIDDOR changes

The absence period that triggers an accident report to the HSE or local authority under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) will rise from three to seven days.

The HSE board agreed to recommend the change at its 17 August meeting, accepting the results of a public consultation which found a two-thirds majority in favour of putting back the absence threshold.

The extension was first recommended by Lord Young is his report Common Sense, Common Safety, published last October, and the HSE board agreed to the public consultation in December.

The exercise, which ran from January to April, prompted 776 responses, 67% of them in favour of the proposed change according to the HSE

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18th Aug 2011

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