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I was discussing with a colleague earlier today the changes to RIDDOR, where the reportable injuries have changed from three days to seven. Have the changes in legislation now been brought in or are they still pending. I was struggling to find any concrete evidence as to whether they had changed as of yet.
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I understand it is still over 3 day at the moment. Consultation started in Jan 2011 and deadline for responses was 11th April. HSE planned to submit to Secretary of State end of May
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The HSE are expected to report back to the Government at the end of May that is today and then the necessary order must be laid before Parliament and the consultation within the powers that be gone through before the amended legislation becomes law. This is followed by the implementation phase so the change from three days to seven will be about two to three months away yet.
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Thanks for the info its appreciated
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I seem to recall H&S legislative change and implementation was now essentially voluntarily restricted to March and October, so October for change in law at the earliest.
Personally I'm still very disappointed that UK will abandon participation in what is essentially a world-wide reference of workplace injury statistics. Our enforcers will now no longer have comparable data to present.
Neither will they be able to realistically comply with an EC Regulation on the matter - but no-one seems to worry about such things these days (recent challenge by EC on our Control of Asbestos Regulations for example)
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Ron
This change is supposed to save business just under £8.00 per form that they will not have to send in, moving from 3 to 7 day reporting. So the national accident statistics database will be disrupted again.
The Tories have previous form in relation to this topic - in 1983 they destroyed the national accident database with the abolition of Industrial Injury benefit and dumped all the administration costs of Employer Statutory Sick Pay onto the employers in another exercise supposedly to reduce the illusionary 'burden'.
The issue of Europe was raised in the Consultative Document. If the proposal goes ahead the Government (HSE) will reduce the scope for international comparable data. Maybe that is what they want. They certainly do not think much of their European obligations with regard to reporting injuries if they go ahead.
I cannot recall any discussion about how to compel those illegally failing to report injuries as they should. However given that the exercise is about saving money, enforcement of the law appears not to be an option. As the HSAWA requires changes to the law to maintain or improve standards maybe it is time to seek the European Commission's view on the matter.
Nigel
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