Trips are not RIDDOR reportable unless there is a resulting injury that meets the criteria - eg broken arm

Not strictly true as RIDDOR also includes absence from work or unable to carry out their full range of duties for over 7 days due to a workplace injury. The original poster has not said whether there was an injury, but if we assume that there was and that the injured party was an employee of somebody as oppossed to being self employed, then it appears that this is reportable. Unfortunately we are short of relevent details to be able to comment further.

There was swelling and bruising to the operatogves ankle as a result. Operative was sent to Doctors but, of course, can slef medicate for first week.

Apologies for grammatical errors/spelling mistakes so far. I am currently multitasking and have only just seen the atrocious spelling etc..

He was working- its reportable. IMHO Andy

OK This is my thought process. It seems other people I am in discussion with have a diferemt thought process. they are claiming that everything that the employer could have done to prevent this incident has been done and that because the operative tripped on his own feet, and that an investigation has been carried out that confirms the 2 pre-mentioned points, its non reportable because the guy tripped on his own feet. My supsicion (typing this thinking rather sarcasticaly) is that they are doing this because its what they believe and not becasue of the AFR which is presented to the CEO of the company. Thoughts?? I am now being asked, I am CMIOSH, to attend a Accident investigation course by the guy who believes they are correct with the non reporting, so he can correct me on what is reportable in these circumstances and what is not! I feel my proffesional integrity is being undermined and I do not feel comfortable with this practice. I am not really sure of what direction to take now.

P.S. in the past I have been asked not to report things that clearly are - I ensured that my recommendation to report was recorded and I copied this to our insurers and MD. The joyful thing was this came back to bite them when the claim form arrived, as the claim requested a RIDDOR report :)

Notifiable in this case.

Good afternoon, I am Rafique Working as a Safety officer in Dubai. i would like to share one incident which happend at my site. A manlift( MEWP UPRIGHT AB 38 SERIES) tilted and still investigation is going on. It happend on saturday 1 of april. While the operator lifting the basket to reach their target, approximately at 7 mtr of height, the operator feels the basket coming down. Man lift partially toppled and the basket sat on electrical panel underneath of bucket of manlift. thank god no one was injured And the incident immediate informed to the HSE dept. As we investigated the scenario says it was because of because of over reaching or boom was extended out of range.

Apologies if this hijacks the original thread - RIDDOR seems to raise more queries and differing opinions than anything else. The scenario is a mobile employee is called out, out of hours - on a sunday morning - for just a few hours and then returns to his home. As he is getting out of his company van at his home address he looses his balance and falls injuring his shoulder. What are the opinions on the forum - is this "arising out of or in connection with work" - he wouldnt have been getting out of the van if it had not been for work but are any of the key factors to consider in "arising out of or in connection with work" satisfied ? If so which? Discuss and thanks in advance

Thanks for your reply

maybe you need to review your understanding of RIDDOR The cause is irrelivant Teh boy had it at #13

See for this instance, which is very relevant for the case I have described, I would say it is not reportable. The van is considered a place of work. If the operative has arrived at his home address and has then left the va then surely he has left his place of work. The prior comments have been helpful and have have forced difference of opinions regarding the original incident I outlined. What was more interesting was the comment which stated that if the operative had injured himslef just from not paying attention then its not RIDDOR reportable? I would say that the health and safety looks at human behaviour and its irrelavant if he was paying attention or not, the fact is a catagory of accident/incident is human error. Also the opeartive was carrying an object that was part of the work process. Lastly the operative was carrying out duties that form part of his normal work duties. I have let the cat of of the bag now on my opinion on the original outlined incident. The reason I was asking opinions of others was to gaugue the thought process of others. In my opinion, I cannot see why others do not want to report incident. Instead, why do companies not use these reported incidents as leavers to move the bussiness in the right ditrection of putting into place control measures that are effective in stopping such instances re-occuring? I know its difficult to put control measures in effect to stop the original incident outlined in this thread from occuring but, some of the replies, do show the mentality this industry has taken in recent years and the importance of seeming like you "doing well on the safety front".

Walker - I agree that the original post Incident should be reportable - and post 13. I just thought that the "Hijacked thread" Incident query wasn't reportable. With the amount of posts on RIDDOR and the conflicting advice from intelligent people on here I am not the only one that needs a better understanding it seems - or do the Regs need to be clearer?

Good reply DP and on one of the last posted RIDDOR queries I read on the forum I changed my viewpoint. We have a very thorough accident investigation procedure in place where I work and I have no hesitation in reporting "RIDDORS" - I have much more concern / pressure from the top brass unfortunately. SW