What are the rules and guidelines for reporting accident statistics, particularly around working as contractors? If you are providing people only, and the client is supervising those people, allocating tasks and providing risk assessments, method statements permits etc, do the accident stats go to the client site, or should the contracting company report them as well. Currently we are claiming all manhours worked for all people supplied (and thus lowering any frequency rates), but now an accident has occured, the directors don't want to count the accident in our statistics as we didn't have any control over the events. Thanks for any thoughts people can supply.

Thanks Dave. I appreciate that in terms of reporting to the HSE etc. My question is probably more around the ethics of not including accidents in the company safety stats such as recordable injury frequency rate etc, that are used for PQQ's and other customer comparisons.