Paperwork or prevention?

摘要

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is consulting on changes to RIDDOR to implement Lord Young's recommendation that the threshold for reporting injuries to HSE should be increased from three days absence following an accident to seven days (see: www.hse.gov.uk). Lord Young proposed this as a way of reducing administrative burdens, particularly for SMEs. RoSPA is preparing a response to the consultation but as I argued in my last Parting Shot, we think that this exercise should be taken as an opportunity to look in the round at how to achieve a better balance between what is reported to HSE directly and what information employers should record internally as part of their mainstream management of health and safety.