Posted By halesowen Baggie The company I work for has a number of depots, the central h&s team produce a monthly report that highlights the accidents we have had in the period, we as business units have to display the reports on notice boards. My concern is that within these reports the names of employees that have had accidents and a description of the incident is available for all to see. Is this practice contravening Data Protection?

Posted By CFT Agree with LMR; IMO it is a breach of the Act and defeats the whole purpose of keeping original stats secure. CFT

Posted By Paul Duell That's a yes from me as well. In my last job we were forbidden from using names in accident detail, either in H&S meetings or in stats posters. I did what a previous poster has said: Date of accident, department, what happened and what we've done about it. Some people could work out from this who had had the accident - but they'd probably be people who knew about the accident anyway.

Posted By halesowen Baggie Thanks for everyones replies, what I think has happened over time is that an original process of just displaying the first page with stats recorded such as IFR has turned into posting the whole report with in-depth accident detail recorded. The Safety Manager for the group is now addressing the situation. Thanks again.