About Accident Investigation
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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.
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.
Results you should expect
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?
Working with MESH you can be fully assured that the investigations that we carry out on your behalf will identify any improvements that may be necessary to prevent harm to staff and others while ensuring full compliance with the vast array of health and safety legislation that applies to your business.
MESH Consultants have used our extensive experience in health and safety accident and incident investigations to ensure peace of mind for clients in a wide range of industries throughout the UK.
Featured Case Study
Client: Sign 2000
Sector: Manufacturing
We can highly recommend MESH for the work they have done for us
Murray Crompton
MESH are often requested to assist clients in the investigation of accidents when a RIDDOR report is needed to be made. This occurred at a Kent based sign company in 2008 when an accident in their yard occurred involving a fork lift truck and an employee. This resulted in the employee sustained a back injury requiring a prolonged absence from work.
We assisted the company in leading the investigation process and the completion of the RIDDOR report. This incident was subsequently followed up by the HSE but due to the improvement actions already undertaken they were happy to accept that the necessary improvements had been undertaken and took no further action.
Your Options
To discuss the options available to you we advise you contact us for a no obligation chat. We offer various solutions including audits, site inspections, action plans and would like to talk to you about what best suits your needs.
Costs
Our consultancy services are priced competitively while also competing from a quality point of view. To find out how we can help you, and plan out the best way to move your business forward please get in contact with us.
Where we work
MESH Consultants investigates accidents and incidents 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.
