INCIDENTS AND SERIOUS ACCIDENTS

Introduction – Incidents and Accidents

What needs to be reported?

RIDDOR requires employers and others in control of premises to report certain accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences arising out of or in connection with work.

 

Injuries and ill health involving employees

Under RIDDOR, the responsible person must report the following work-related accidents, including those caused by physical violence, if an employee is injured, wherever they are working:

  • Accidents which result in death or a specified injury must be reported without delay.

  • Accidents which prevent the injured person from continuing their normal work for more than seven days, not counting the day of the accident, but including weekends and other rest days must be reported within 15 days of the accident.

 

Injuries involving pupils and other people not at work

Injuries to pupils and visitors who are involved in an accident at school or on an activity organised by the school are only reportable under RIDDOR if the accident results in:

  • The death of the person, and arose out of, or in connection with a work activity.

  • An injury that arose out of, or in connection with a work activity and the person is taken directly from the scene of the accident to hospital for treatment (examinations and diagnostic tests do not constitute treatment).

 

Dangerous occurrences

These are specified near-miss events, which are only reportable if listed under RIDDOR. Reportable dangerous occurrences in schools typically include:

  • The accidental release of a biological agent likely to cause severe human illness.

  • The accidental release or escape of any substance that may cause a serious injury or damage to health.

  • An electrical short circuit or overload causing a fire or explosion.

 

See also our Lock Down Policy

 

 

This policy was adopted at The Committee Meeting held on …………………

 This policy is known, agreed and implemented by all staff.

 This policy is known and made available to all parents.

 

 

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES

Introduction – Notifiable Diseases

Public Health England (PHE) aims to detect possible outbreaks of disease and epidemics as rapidly as possible. Accuracy of diagnosis is secondary, and since 1968 clinical suspicion of a notifiable infection is all that’s required.                                                                                            

‘Notification of infectious diseases’ is the term used to refer to the statutory duties for reporting notifiable diseases in the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010.

 

PHE centre contact details                                                                                                            

Surrey and Sussex PHE Centre

County Hall

North Chart Way

Horsham

West Sussex

Tel: 0844 225 3861

 

List of notifiable diseases                                                                                                        

Diseases notifiable to local authority proper officers under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 are:

  • Acute encephalitis

  • Acute infectious hepatitis

  • Acute meningitis

  • Acute poliomyelitis

  • Anthrax

  • Botulism

  • Brucellosis

  • Cholera

  • Diphtheria

  • Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)

  • Food poisoning

  • Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)

  • Infectious bloody diarrhoea

  • Invasive group A streptococcal disease

  • Legionnaires’ disease

  • Leprosy

  • Malaria

  • Measles

  • Meningococcal septicaemia

  • Mumps

  • Plague

  • Rabies

  • Rubella

  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

  • Scarlet fever

  • Smallpox

  • Tetanus

  • Tuberculosis

  • Typhus

  • Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)

  • Whooping cough

  • Yellow fever

This policy was adopted at The Committee Meeting held on …………………

This policy is known, agreed and implemented by all staff.

This policy is known and made available to all parents.