Hi

Does anyone know where to find out how many companies were fined last year due to late reporting of an accident?

i have tried the hse website but am unable to find anything.

Pinstripe - simple answer is I don’t know - never mind last year but ever as a single offence.

I am not aware of any single incident of none reporting that has ever led to prosecution leading to a fine - there are plenty of examples where company's have been prosecuted for failing to report where the charge is attached to another greater offence.

It has to be in the public interest to prosecute for not reporting an incident - that will only ever be in case where a company has deliberately set out not to report to gain some type of advantage. Look at the many discussions on this forum - not reporting the vast majority of these would not get anywhere near meeting this test.

The only cases that I have seen is where this has been added to another prosecution, such as action as a result from the investigation after the incident. The HSE then tend to prosecute for failing complying with WAH regs and RIDDOR regs as an example. I have never seen a case on its own.

Good find Alistair, that’s a first. Like I said I have never seen this before, a prosecution with regards RIDDOR in isolation - however, I feel its very much in the interest of the public here - there was an associated death and the LA were restricted form getting to the bottom of the incident as the premises were vacated once they found out ( I read this on another report on the net).

Tesco Details.... (link doesnt work)

Supermarket giant Tesco has been prosecuted for not reporting staff accidents properly at two of its Berkshire stores, and for failing to load and unload vehicles safely.

Bracknell Forest Council’s environmental health team charged the retailer with four offences, which took place during 2009 and 2010.

Council officers discovered Tesco had failed to report two employee accidents at its Warfield store and another at its store at The Meadows in Sandhurst.

The failures were uncovered during an investigation into the retailer’s failure to stop an unsafe working practice that involved using a metal plate to unload vehicles at the Warfield store.

The company was not training its operational or managerial staff properly to load and unload vehicles, and it had no safe system of work in place.

Yesterday (30 March), Bracknell magistrates fined Tesco £14,000 after it admitted failing to ensure employees’ safety, in breach of Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act.

Tesco was fined a further £34,000 after pleading guilty to three breaches of Regulation 3 of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations.

Two of these charges involved Tesco not reporting accidents by the “quickest practicable means” and the third was a failure to send a report to the enforcing authority within 10 days.

Tesco, which operates 2500 UK stores employing more than 287,000 staff, must also pay £25,000 in prosecution costs.

David Steeds, head of environmental health at Bracknell Forest Council, said the company’s failure to keep to the rules meant several employees were injured, one quite seriously, and others were put at risk.