Posted By NatashaL Hi I was wondering if anyone could advise me on the following. Our company is a training provider and we have in place the HSE accident book. I wanted to find out exactly what accidents should be recorded i.e. Should all accidents be recorded in this book involving our staff and also the students who attend courses? We have in place a NCR reporting system that would take into account if there was any accidents with the students so i therefore wanted to know if it is a legal requirement to record details of accidents of non-staff in the company accident book or if by recording it on our NCR system is sufficient? The reason i am asking the question is i have been asked to do a report of the amount of accidents from 1999-2005 and it is taking forever as all accidents relating to staff and students are stored together! Natasha

Posted By Calum Clark Our internal accident/incident report forms have a tick the approriate box question which identifies the injured party as being a particular category of staff member, student, visitor or contractor. Upon receiving a form reporting an accident involving a member of staff, the health and safety office copies the details into the HSE accident book that resides in our office. This way we can collect info how we want it and still have the HSE book entries for the benifit of the bods from Social Security. Calum