Accident Investigation
Are accidents costing your business money?
MESH have carried out Accident Investigations for companies large and small throughout the UK.
The Health & Safety Executive quote an average cost of a
three day lost time accident as being £2,234. Do you have
an accident that needs to be reported to the authorities? Or do you
just wish to understand the reasons for an accident or near miss that
has occurred or keeps occurring? Let us help to improve the quality
of your investigations by determining the root causes. Unless the true
underlying reasons are identified how are you going to manage them and
stop repeat or more serious accidents?
Reporting accidents and ill health at work is a legal requirement.
If you are an employer, self employed or in control of a premises you
will have duties under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous
Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR). Accidents that result in the following
will need to be reported to your enforcing authority:
Death and major injury
Must be reported without delay and must be followed up with a completed
accident report (F2508) within 10 days (includes fractures, amputations,
loss of sight, injuries requiring admittance to hospital of more than
24 hours etc).
Over 3-day injury
A completed accident report form (F2508) must be sent within 10 days.
Disease
If notified by a doctor that your employee suffers from a reportable
work-related disease (including diseases such as carpal tunnel syndrome,
occupational dermatitis, occupational asthma etc.), you must send
a completed F2508A report form.
Dangerous occurrence
If something happens that could have resulted in a reportable injury
but didn’t (such as failure of any closed pressure vessel, collapse
of scaffolding or building, explosion or fire etc) this may need to
be reported immediately.
Accidents are a learning opportunity because today they may not
cost you anything but if lessons aren’t learnt from accidents
then the impacts later are high and could involve injury, death, legal
action, or even imprisonment.
Click here to see some examples of situations
in which accidents have occurred in companies and what the outcomes
of those accidents were.
MESH Consultants investigates accidents and near misses for a number
of clients throughout the UK, which enables
those clients to learn by those experiences and put procedures in place
that avoid similar experiences in the future.
For an informal confidential discussion about how our accident investigation
services can help your business please do contact
us without obligation.
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