제 목 : NEW ACCIDENT REPORTING REGS IN FORCE 1 APRIL 1996
일 자 : 1996년 01월
제공처 : SAFETY management
AYEAR and a half after consultation began revisions to the RIDDOR
regulations have at last reached the statute books.
The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) began consultation on the
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (RIDDOR) in
April 1994, with the aim of having the regulations in force by April
1995. They take effect one year later than planned.
Environment minister Sir Paul Beresford, who laid the regulations
before Parliament, said : 'I welcome these new Regulations for two
reasons - fist they streamline and simplify the law on reporting serious
work related injuries, ill health and dangerous occurrences and secondly
there will now be just one set of Regulations instead of five.'
The main changes to the regulations are :
o Injuries caused by violence at work will be reportable for the first
time ;
o The duty of reporting accidents to members of the public in any
workplace will be simplified - it will be required for deaths or
accidents where a member of the public is taken to hospital ; and
o it will become legally possible for reports to be made by telephone
- pilot schemes will be tested in Scotland this year.
'There are some significant changes and improvements from the old
Regulations,' said HSC chairman Frank Davies : 'The HSE and the
Commission need information about the nature and extent of violence to
staff, which is the subject of increasing public concern.'
The regulations adopt recommendations made by inquiries into the
Clapham rail crash and the King's Cross fire, including :
o failures in railway signalling systems which endanger or have the
potential to endanger the safe passage of trains will become
reportable ;
o incidents of serious congestion in railways stations will become
reportable if they cannot be relieved by planned procedures and in
the time anticipated.
Said Davies : 'All the accidents and diseases that need to be reported
are undoubtedly serious - fatalities, major injuries and any injuries
which mean that someone is unable to do their normal work for three or
more days.
'The information we get from these reports is very important. It means
we can make sure we target our resources at areas of highest risk.'
Other changes include :
o updating the reportable diseases ;
o simplifying, amending and updating the list of dangerous occurrences.
RIDDOR 95 replaces the existing 1985 regs and the four separate regs
which currently apply to the rail and offshore industries. New report
forms, an information leaflet on the Regs, as well as a detailed guide
and separate guidance for the rail industry will be launched this year.
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