Posted By k An employee slips, does not inform management or complete the accident book and continues his shift. Next day phones in sick and subsequently is off work for a week. Reportable??? If an employee has an accident be it a cut, slip or trip and continues his shift but reports sick the next day. Is it reportable? Could it be argued that a percentage of these individuals will have conjured up the injury/illness during the night with view to making a civil claim. Does this make a mockery of RIDDOR?? your thoughts ladies and gentlemen

Posted By S P Walsh K, I came up against a similar problem myself and got advice from our insurers. We have employees who are allowed to have secondary employment, window cleaners, tilers, undertakers. If they injured themselves during their secondary employment they used to fill in the accident book and say they injured themselves on our premises. Our insurance company suggested asking all employees who state they injured themselves on our premises to write the names of any witness to their accident on the reverse of the accident book entry. We drafted up a witness statement form with the usual declaration at the bottom to comply with the Civil Procedure Rules stating "I declare this is is a true and accurante statement .... and I accept that if my statement is shown to be false I will be liable to disciplinary action". Of course if the individual injured themselves during the course of secondary employment they had no witnesses from our company and therefore found it very difficult to make a case.

Posted By Bill Parkinson Would agree that you would need to report it but make it clear on the F2508 the circumstances and what you think your organisation contributed to the incident (and action you are taking). Most Inspectors will recognise these types of incidents and adopt a sensible attitude as long as you are open with them and include as much information as you can. We used to have people writing entries in accident books and thinking that was all they had to do but we got an agreement with the DWP to scrap the accident books as we had a comprehensive incident reporting system which gave more information to DWP if required. Result massive increase in incident reporting meaning we could do a better analysis.