HEALTH & SAFETY

Certain injuries, dangerous occurrences and diseases are required to be reported under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995. Advice on what to report, how to do it and to who may be found at:

Specified injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences are reported to the Incident Contact Centre and passed to the Environmental Health Department in accordance with legislation. All reported accidents are investigated. However, the depth of investigation and the method varies according to the circumstances. The investigation may be by personal visit, telephone, correspondence or at the next scheduled inspection. The criteria used to determine the method of investigation includes, actual and potential severity of the event; seriousness of potential breach; history of duty holder; enforcement priorities, public expectations; practicality of achieving results; relevance of event to a wider range of premises; legal factors; resource constraints.