The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995

UK Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 3163 — creates 1 criminal offence.

Made

6 December 1995

In force from

1 April 1996

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Corporate, financial services, company law, employment, charity, electoral and tax

Made under

Offshore Safety Act 1992, Railways Act 1993, Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations revoke and re-enact with modifications, in a consolidated form, the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1985 (S.I. 1985/2023), the Railways (Notice of Accidents) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/2187), and certain provisions of the Offshore Installations (Inspectors and Casualties) Regulations 1973 (S.I. 1973/1842) and the Submarine Pipe-lines (Inspectors etc.) Regulations 1977 (S.I. 1977/835). The Regulations maintain a requirement that the responsible person (as defined in regulation 2(1)) must notify, and subsequently send a report to, the Health and Safety Executive or, as the case may be, the local authority of fatal and certain non-fatal accidents arising out of or in connection with work, of certain specified diseases contracted by persons at work and of certain specified dangerous occurrences. In addition to minor and drafting amendments, these Regulations make the following changes of substance— a the definition of accident (regulation 2(1)) includes acts of violence done to persons at work and acts of suicide on railways or other relevant transport systems; b the injuries reportable in respect of persons not at work are confined to deaths, those injuries which cause a person to be taken from the site of the accident to a hospital and major injuries arising out of or in connection with work at a hospital (regulation 3(1)(a), (c) and (d)). Accidents arising out of medical treatment by a doctor or dentist are excluded (regulation 10); c the list of dangerous occurrences which must be reported (Schedule 2) has been updated: it consists of general provisions as well as additional occurrences reportable in respect of mines, quarries, relevant transport systems and offshore workplaces; d the list of reportable diseases has been updated (regulation 5 and Schedule 2); e the report required to be sent to the Health and Safety Executive or, as the case may be, the local authority may be sent either on a form approved by the Executive or by some other means approved by the Executive (regulation 3(1)(ii) and 5(1)). This enables the Executive to approve the sending of reports by, for instance, telephone; f the persons responsible for the reporting of gas incidents include those approved under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1994 (regulation 6(2)); g the Health and Safety Executive is given limited power to grant exemptions from requirements imposed by the Regulations (regulation 13); and h certain provisions of the Regulation of Railways Act 1871, the Railway Employment (Prevention of Accients) Act 1900 and the Transport and Works Act 1992 are repealed or amended (regulation 14). A copy of the compliance cost assessment prepared in respect of these Regulations can be obtained from the Health and Safety Executive, Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS. A copy has been placed in the Library of each House of Parliament.

Offences created by this instrument

• Contravention of The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 the instrument as a whole · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

Contributions, debates and written statements mentioning this instrument by name. Parliamentary material is reused under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

• Health and Safety (Construction Industry) Commons · Westminster Hall · 9 March 2011 · Jim Sheridan

  I have not seen the letter, but I have heard of it. My right hon. Friend is correct that it would be disastrous, not only for the HSE but for workers in the construction industry. We should watch this space and see what happens. Recent research shows that the level of enforcement activity and the number of prosecutions being undertaken by the HSE is at a record low. Due to a lack of resources, the HSE can investigate only one in every 10 accidents. Cuts to the HSE’s budget are likely to increase the under-reporting of accidents under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous…

• Agricultural Accidents (Records) Commons · Commons Chamber · 9 April 2014 · Bill Wiggin (North Herefordshire) (Con)

  I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the Health and Safety Executive to record certain details of agricultural accidents and to report those details annually; and for connected purposes. I remind the House of my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, and of the fact that I breed Hereford cattle myself. In 2006, my constituent Ian Jackson, a vet, was tragically killed by a runaway heifer in Weobley, Herefordshire. He died from injuries sustained after he was attacked and crushed against a lorry. In 2007, my constituent Mick Daw was killed by a…

• Working at Height: Safety Commons · Westminster Hall · 2 May 2019 · Alison Thewliss (Glasgow Central) (SNP)

  I beg to move, That this House has considered preventing serious injury and fatalities while working at height. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe. I pay tribute to everyone who contributed to the all-party parliamentary group on working at height report, which we published just a few months ago. The acknowledgments on the back pages list the organisations in the sector that brought their expertise to bear. A 1970s public information film told us: “The effects of gravity can be grave.” We all have a stake in our constituents being safe while working at height,…

• Working at Height: Safety Commons · Westminster Hall · 2 May 2019 · The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Guy Opperman)

  Thank you for being in the chair in today’s debate, Mr McCabe. The hon. Member for Glasgow South West (Chris Stephens) is right that it feels a little like a reunion of the Work and Pensions Committee, but it is certainly a privilege to respond on behalf of the Government to a worthy and important report, and I will attempt to address as many of the points as I can. I should explain from the outset that I am not the specific Minister with departmental responsibility for this matter. I convey the apologies of the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, my hon. Friend the Member for…

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