Good morning I have had a look through previous posts and cannot find anything relating to this so my apologies if I have missed it. How can one retract a RIDDOR report once it's logged? Do we contact the report line, the local HSE office etc...? I know that the incident in question is definitely not reportable but it has been logged in error and we want to retract it. There is nothing, as far as I can see, on the HSE pages on how to do this. Many thanks in anticipation. Rob

Hi Helena Thanks for coming back to me so quickly on this and thanks for the information. I think our concern was that if it was logged as a RIDDOR report then potentially when the HSE look back at their statistics it might seem to them that my organisation has a larger number of reports than is actually the case. However although they take details of the incident if they don't log it themselves as a RIDDOR then that's fine. Thanks again Rob

To put your mind even further at rest, there is no link between the RIDDOR database and HSE's main work recording and planning database, so even if you had a number of actual RIDDOR reports they wouldn't be automatically flagged up as being a potentially adverse trend. The process for RIDDOR reports is as follows: reports are sent to the appropriate local office where they are viewed against the incident selection criteria. If a report meets the criteria, then an investigation is raised on the HSE work recording system and allocated to an Inspector. If it doesn't meet the criteria then it is, effectively, binned. This was a huge bone of contention with Inspectors when the ICC was introduced as it remove a large source of intelligence which could be used for visit planning.