Principles and Procedure of recording under RIDDOR

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Principles and Procedure of recording under RIDDOR
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Principles and Procedure of recording under RIDDOR
Introduction
Most organizations including Castleford have different accidents that deter employees from
performing their daily duties well. An accident is a term that describes unplanned incidence that
results into physical injury to workers in a particular organization. Organizations must devise
strategies that are meant to eliminate these accidents so that their productivity is not hindered.
When an accident occurs in an organization, they should also set a mechanism for ensuring that
the accident does not reoccur. Below is a description of the principles that must be followed
when an accident occurs in an organization for instance Castleford and the procedure that is
followed when recording and reporting such accidents to the relevant organizations. When
Castleford follows the described procedure and principles, it will have an added merit of evading
accidents and if they occur it will be able to curb reoccurrence of similar accidents in its
organization in the near future.
Principles that govern reporting and recording including legal obligations to do so under
RIDDOR.
RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulation 1995) is a
regulation adopted organizations including Castleford Manufacturing limited to anticipate
occurrences and repetition of accidents occurring in an organization. RIDDOR fulfils its mandate
of preventing reoccurrence of past injuries by ensuring that all accidents that occur in an
organization are reported at the right time so that crucial measures are put into place by the
company to curb future injuries. Potential causal agents of accidents around organizations are
removed so that injuries do not find their way in the company’s environment to cause injuries to
workers.
The first principle of Health and Safety Executive Department (HSE) requires that, when an
accident occurs and render a worker to be absent from work for more than three days, it is the
responsibility of the person in charge to write a report to HSE before the end of seven days. This
principle gives risk assessment team a humble opportunity of assessing the major cause of that
particular risk. The other principle that organizations must comply to requires that when an
accident occurs, records for the injured employees must be documented and a record be kept for
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Principles and Procedure of recording under RIDDOR
a minimum period of three years. Keeping such records for injured worker is meant to keep an
eye on whether the accident will reoccur in an organization in the future or not.
RIDDDOR is able to prevent accidents from happening since during the assessment of an
occurred risk, potential hazards are identified and prevented from causing accidents. HSE Act of
1974 has a role of ensuring that workers perform their duties in a safe environment and any
accidents must be reported by the head of the organization. According to The National Archives,
(2012), records of past injuries are meant to track for any other accidents that may occur in the
near future at Castleford Company. Records enables organizations to identify risk level of
accidents. Accidents occurring many times are reported to have a higher risk as compared to
those that occur only once (Drawer & Fuller, 2002). Measures to control accidents that occur
frequently in the organization must be put into place.
Procedure used to record accidents, dangerous occurrences and near misses
According to Nichols, (1994), dangerous occurrences are incidences that have higher chances of
causing a very serious injury death. Dangerous occurrences do not occur frequently in
organizations. Near misses are emergencies that occurs in an organization and it does not
necessarily cause an injury to its employees (Jones et al.,1999). Once an accident occurs in an
organization, there is a certain procedure that is followed by an employer of that organization for
instance an injury that was caused by splash of dilute acid to one of the employer at Castleford.
The first step to take is to report the injury to the head via making a call or filling an online
report form that is stored immediately in the RIDDOR database based on the type of injury for
transparency and accountability during compensation (Accident at Work ,2012). After that, it is
important that the person in charge records the occurrence it in the accident book whether it is
mere or huge (acid injury is a huge accident that can never be skipped). An accident book refers
to a vital document that are used by both employers and employees for recording and reporting
work related accidents. All details relating to the affected person are written in the book
including personal details and the designation of that particular worker (Jacinto & Aspinwall,
2004). The circumstances surrounding the scene should also be recorded. For the case of
Castleford, the cause of the accident will be recorded as the collapse of rinse tank that caused the
worker to fall 2.6 metres and the type of injury will be severe.
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