One of our employees was injured while working at someone else’s premises – who is responsible for reporting the accident?
Under the REPORTING OF INJURIES, DISEASES AND DANGEROUS OCCURRENCES REGULATIONS 1995 (RIDDOR), the duty to notify the enforcing authorities of an accident rests with the ‘responsible person’. In cases where a member of staff suffers a fatal, major or over-three-day injury while working at another firm’s premises, the individual’s employer is still considered to be the responsible persons, and so must report the incident. If the worker is killed or suffers a major injury, their employer should notify the enforcing authority without delay, and follow this up with a completed accident report form within ten days. When a over-three-day injury has occurred, the employers only need to send in the report form. However, when a self-employed person is working on someone else’s premises and suffers a RIDDOR reportable injury, the person in control of the premises is responsible for reporting the injury. This is also the case ifa member of the public receives a reportable injury as a result of a
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