Food Retailing Industry: Impact of Legal Reporting on ASDA Operations

This report examines the impact of legal reporting requirements, specifically the Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, on ASDA's food retailing operations. It highlights how these regulations, designed to ensure employers report workplace accidents, injuries, and diseases, have affected ASDA. The report details the changes in law, including the types of incidents that must be reported and the shift from 'major damages' to 'specified injuries'. It also discusses the implications for ASDA, such as the need for a dedicated monitoring department, increased spending on safety and health, and the overall aim of creating a safer work environment. The conclusion emphasizes the law's success in reducing workplace incidents and improving employee safety within ASDA.

In the early age, cultural aspects, learning languages and travelling challenges restricted (Capacci, Scorcu and Vici, 2015). In 14 century
Christopher Columbus sailed westward and vasco da gama cruised to country for earn money then business travel has been integral part of
tourism industry(Cave and Brown 2012). Early tourism started with Nomads who
travelled around the world in search of food and shelter. Main intension of this traveller is to gathered food and traded around the world and
gave rise to the barter system (Capacci, Scorcu and Vici, 2015). 1500 BC is marked as the era when the Europeans visited pyramids and thus
developed the tourism for pilgrimage. Early tourism started with Nomads who travelled around the world in search of food and shelter. Main
intension of this traveller is to gathered food and traded around the world and gave rise to the barter system (Capacci, Scorcu and Vici, 2015).
1500 BC is marked as the era when the Europeans visited pyramids and thus developed the tourism for pilgrimage.
Food Retailing
(Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, 1995)
Introduction
This law was enacted as to ensure that the
employers report about all the activities to the
authorities. ASDA have to report following
activities:
 Work related accidents which lead to
death
 accidents which causes hazardous
injuries
 If an employee is diagnosed with disease
caused at workplace it has to be reported.
 Certain ‘hazardous incidences’.
The law states about different levels of diseases and dangers
which are faced by employee’s in ASDA.
Industry Report
The main changes are to streamline the reporting
requirements in the following areas in ASDA:
The classification of ‘major damages’ to workers
is being swapped with a smaller list of ‘specified
injuries’.
The current schedule specifying 47 types of
industrialized illness is being changed with eight
groups of reportable work-related illness
Fewer types of ‘hazardous occurrence’ require
reporting to the authorities.
Reporting Requirements
ASDA has to follow these reporting requirements:
Incurable accidents
Mishaps to non-workers (public)
Mishaps which result in the prostration of an employee for
more than seven days
Recording necessities will remain largely unaffected,
including the requirement to record mishaps consequential in
the incapacitation of an employee for more than three days.
Impact on ASDA
These regulations complicated the whole
process. ASDA enacted a new
department which is focused on
monitoring the activities of people and
register any reports regarding accidents
and injuries within the premises.
 Time consuming
 Complex process
 Red tape
 Burden on human resource
Conclusion
The law has made it mandatory for the
companies to report any disease and ill
health cases to the authorities and the
commission, so that appropriate actions
can be taken. ASDA now have to spend
more on the maintaining the safety and
health department as to fulfil the
requirements of the stated law. This
legislation has reduced the number of
incidents which took place in the country
and it has been able to provide a better
and safe work environment to the
employees.
Changes in the law