Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

Over three-day lost time injury
If there is an accident connected with work (including 
physical violence) and an employee, or self-employed 
person working on the premises, suffers an injury and 
is away from work or not doing their normal duties for 
more than three days (including weekends, rest days or 
holidays) but not counting the day of the accident, the 
responsible person must send a completed accident 
report form, F2508, to the enforcing authority within ten 
days.
Disease
If a doctor notifi es the responsible person that an 
employee suffers from a reportable work-related dis-
ease a completed disease report form, F2508A, must be 
sent to the enforcing authority. A summary is included in 
Chapter 17 and a full list is included with a pad of report 
forms. The HSE InfoLine or the Incident Contact Centre 
can be contacted to check whether a particular disease 
is reportable.
Dangerous occurrence
If an incident happens which does not result in a report-
able injury, but obviously could have done, it could be a 
Dangerous Occurrence as defi ned by a list in the regu-
lations (see Chapter 17 for a summary of Dangerous 
Occurrences). All Dangerous Occurrences must be 
reported immediately by, for example, telephone, to the 
enforcing authorities. The HSE InfoLine or the Incident 
Contact Centre can be contacted to check whether a 
dangerous occurrence is reportable.
A completed accident report form, F2508, must be 
sent to the enforcing authorities within ten days.
Figure 8.4
The Accident Book BI 510 ISBN 
0-7176-2603-2
Figure 8.5
RIDDOR leafl et from HSE Books.

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Incident and accident investigation and reporting
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8.5.3 Whom to report to
Until 2001 all reports had to be made to the local HSE 
offi ce or local authority. This can still be done, but there 
is a centralized national system, called the Incident 
Contact Centre (ICC), which is a joint venture between 
the HSE and local authorities. All reports sent locally are 
now passed on to the ICC.
This means that employers no longer need be 
concerned about which authority to report to, as all 
incidents can be reported to the ICC directly. Reports 
can be sent by telephone, fax, the Internet, or by post. 
If reporting by the Internet or telephone a copy of the 
report is sent to the responsible person for correction, if 
necessary, and for their records.
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Postal reports should be sent to:
Incident 
Contact 
Centre
Caerphilly 
Business 
Park
Caerphilly
CF83 
3GG
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For Internet reports go to: