Accident Book

[wandle]

Now I'm not naive, but I have never known any company to employ managers like they do in Royal Mail, everything is, we'll do it tomorrow,

Ah, so THAT'S the so-called "Spanish Practices" that twerp Crozier was bangin' on about. Mañana !!!

[bandit650]

You should have told your manager that you would do it today or your report it to the D.S.S, they are required to report A.O.D by law mazza,if you go and report it to the D.S.S tell the D.S.S that your manager was not to keen to put it in the ERICA then they will contact the business and remind them that it is an offence not to report an accident on duty and they will remind them that they have a duty of care.

[mazza111]

Yes, that's all been done now, but after the event, I'm older and wiser now. DWP have ruled that it was an industrial injury, even tho the numpty didn't record it, my sick record showed I was off for 3 days with a knee injury. After explaining to DWP that employees don't have access to the work computer and rely on management to do these reports online. Still don't think we should need to rely on management to do their job, cos we all know that in RM most of the management don't do that job very well.......

[brothermagrew]

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Recommended that article is read in full

The explicit requirement to record accidents is contained in the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979, which state that anyone claiming industrial injury benefit must be able to demonstrate that their injury is work-related. Under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR), employers also have a duty to report certain accidents, injuries and dangerous occurrences to the HSE.

[bandit650]

http://www.healthandsafetyatwork.com/hs ... techniques

Recommended that article is read in full

The explicit requirement to record accidents is contained in the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979, which state that anyone claiming industrial injury benefit must be able to demonstrate that their injury is work-related. Under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR), employers also have a duty to report certain accidents, injuries and dangerous occurrences to the HSE.

Thank you as ever, helpful you are brothermagrew

[mazza111]

Key Points

The mechanism for recording incidents might be the traditional accident book, one of the numerous software systems available from commercial suppliers, or a home-grown system. But to fulfil their legal duties, employers must make a secure method for reporting accidents available to all staff and ensure they know how to use it.

"The book is primarily there to serve the interests of the employee. It's to make sure that if they have a cut finger, or a worse accident than that, there's a record of what happened in case they want to make a claim later. So it's an employee protection mechanism.

In its "ready reckoner" for calculating the cost of workplace accidents, the HSE defines an accident as "any unplanned event that results in injury or ill health to people, or damages equipment, property or materials but where there was a risk of harm".

This definition includes some (but not all) types of near-misses - incidents that, under slightly different circumstances, could have resulted in someone being injured.

I liked that part, that kinda screws up RMs incidents

[brothermagrew]

AS STATED

there is no accident book now, it is all being done by electronic reporting (ERICA)

THIS IS NOW A LEGAL REQUIREMENT

the accident must be recorded on the erica system within 24 hours of the accident, and within 48 hours if over the weekend

if the condition lasts more than three days of sickness then it gets upgraded and reported to the H.S.E. as a RIDDOR

I AM THE AREA LEGAL AND MEDICAL AND ANSWER ONLY TO THE AREA HEALTH AND SAFETY REP

also, this is not an INCIDENT but an ACCIDENT

any problems please update your thread, royal mail has not a very good accident record and have to reduce the reporting by 10 % a year

keithposty it should be pointed out that after an ERICA report has been completed and printed out and filed away in the ERICA Folder this then becomes the site accident book.

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Line managers print out accident reports and keep them on file so that there is a site accident book and so they can give the injured person and union reps copies as appropriate, but otherwise the system is paper-free.