principles of reporting and recording accidents and incidents

The accident is an unplanned or uncontrolled event which has led to or could have led to injury to people, damage to plant, machinery or the environment

 or cause some other losses.

The accident and the incident is something that could happen in any engineering workplace or organization during the work. The worker is more amenability for the accident because they are more presence in the workplaces than the visitors and the employer. In order of that the reporting and recording accident and incident become too much important for the engineering organization to have the health and safety reporting system, especially when that reporting is underpin from the RIDDOR which puts duties on employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises (the Responsible Person) to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences.

RIDDOR is the law that requires employers, and other people in charge of work premises, to report and keep records of: work-related accidents which cause deaths, work-related accidents which cause certain serious injuries, diagnosed cases of, certain industrial diseases; and certain dangerous occurrences.

The events above must be reported to the relevant enforcing authority, either the local authority's Environmental Health dept. or the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), without delay.

If any accident happen in any workplace that’s call to make a report for the (HSE) about that incident, so that in any engineering organization need a reporting system to limit the costs after this accident which are not only limited to the human damage but also on the workplace property. Only responsible persons including employers, the self-employed 
and people in control of work premises should submit 
reported under RIDDOR.

The information provided through recording and reporting enables the enforcing authorities either Health and Safety Executive (HSE) or local authority Environmental Health, to identify where and how risks arise, and to investigate serious accidents.

And in the end must Alia say that the HSE and local authority enforcement officers are not an emergency service it’s just who is responsible to for the accident and incident recording and reporting.