RIDDOR is the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases, and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995. By law, it is required for employers, self-employed and people who are in control of premises, to report specified incidents in the workplace. These can include a wide range of things such as dangerous occurrences, certain serious workplace accidents, and occupational diseases. As an employer, it is a legal requirement to report all incidents, as well as ill health at work. A record must be kept of all incidents. RIDDOR records include: • Recording all reportable accidents, injuries, illnesses, dangerous occurrences, work-related deaths and specific injuries lasting more than seven days • Keeping all records in a file, accident book, on a computer or a written log • …show more content…
In the event of a work-related claim, the insurance company will need to see your records – if they are not up-to-date or it is determined that there are incidents missing, this is against the law There are specific rules and regulations in regards to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations; the followings are important: • A company with more than 10 employees must have an accident book • Owners and/or occupiers of quarries, mines, and factories must have an accident book • RIDDOR records must be kept for a minimum of 3 years after the date of the last incident in the book • It is advised that RIDDOR records are kept for 5-6 years in order to allow time for any civil litigation to be made • Incidents must be reported within a 10-day timeframe after the occurrence What is the RIDDOR information do I need to record? • The date of reporting • The date, time and location of the incident • Personal details (name, job title etc) of the person(s)
RIDDOR RIDDOR standard for Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995. These regulations puts roles on employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises (the Responsible Person) to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences (near misses). RDIDDOR is carried out so that HSE can see if it is a safe working area or not. If an accident occurred, details of the accident must be logged in the organization's accident book so they can look at the way they work and to see if they can do any changes to make workplace safer keeping suitable and accurate results helps you to identify patterns in accident and injuries and this will also help you
Confidentiality and trust between the client and social worker is an important part of the therapeutic process. Confidentiality is discussed frequently with the client, in trainings, and in supervisions. When a client first begins services there are multiple forms to fill out, many of which explain the agency’s confidentiality policies and provide client’s the opportunity to agree to share information with certain parties (i.e. their PCP, psychiatrist, specialty providers) or not share any information at all. Despite this focus on confidentiality there are some areas where “the rights of others take precedence over a client’s right to confidentiality” (Hepworth, Rooney, Rooney, & Gottfried, 2017, p. 76). In situations where child abuse or neglect is suspected by the social worker, the social worker will breach confidentiality in order to protect the child. In fact, “all 50 states have statutes making it mandatory for professional to report suspected or known child abuse. Moreover,
Oftentimes when a report is filed, the faculty and staff are untrained and do not know
Field information reports more commonly known as “street checks” or “carding” is an investigative tactic used by police officers all around the world but more commonly in Ontario. This tactic occurs when a police officer will make a stop on an individual walking or standing on the street who appears to be engaging in suspicious activity. The officer would then engage in a conversation with that individual and ask the individual for their identification, the officer would then record it and submit it into a police database (MacLellan, 2015). Then the officer will provide the individual with a receipt or card with the officer’s information (MacLellan, 2015). This practice was not received well by the public and created a major strain between
These records must be kept safe and in an organised manner such as keeping the records in a file, keeping them on a computer, in an accident book or in a written log book. Whatever method the records are stored they must be kept in a safe place as RIDDOR record books must be kept for a minimum of three years after the date of the last incident reported and recorded. Good practice recommends th...
As we may see on television, it may seem as if officers are always out in the field chasing down the criminals but there is more to their jobs than just that. Officer’s jobs also include plenty of documentation. They have to fill out reports about the arrests and the actions that lead up to the arrest. In the past officer used paper and ink pen or even a typewriter to fill out their reports. Now with all the new technology they are ab...
account. My decision was to report the incident so that the correct information would be
Report writing is a form of writing that gives it reader information a type of writing that explain what is taking place or what has taking it a recounting of events . Most newspapers use this type of descriptive recreation of events within their report writing they explain the circumstances of case, court proceeding, type of crime that occurred, etc. (Police reports and there purpose (n.d). Newspaper writer try to explain to the readers what took place and why it is or should be topics of concern police report writing follow the same guidelines. Having the ability to write reports is of extreme importance in police and correctional work daily. Report writing is one of the primary forms of communication within the field of law enforcement agency. Police reports are read by supervisors, police chiefs, fellow officers as well as other criminal justice professionals. Furthermore these documents are written to display the result of an investigation, crimes scene, incidents, and more so it is imperative that there is no grammar errors or misspellings with in the document. Police report writers paint the picture of the events that took place from the time they were called until, the time of their arrival to a crime scene or incident. It’s important that all reports submitted by correctional workers and police officer be well-written with factual information giving step by step details of everything that transpired in chronological order also being very specific about every detail. The reason this is of high important is because this report can assist prosecutor in obtaining a valid conviction of the proper suspect accused (Police reports and there purpose (n.d). Whereas if the police report is poorly written the defense can argue against the finding and may use the discrepancies against the prosecuting state. When poorly written reports are enter into evident for juries to deliberate on it a huge possibility that the report may cause jurors to call into to question whether the officer who wrote it is as careless in other aspects of their police work. as noted by (Police reports and there purpose (n.d). Another issue that will occur if reports are not properly written is miscommunications or misunderstanding. For example a police officer submits a document with only one misspelled words to his police chief, the chief read the report from the officer he put decrease instead of the deceased and cause the chief to send the report the wrong department.
...occurrences including sentinel events, near misses and serious occurrences; Detail of program activities that the high-risk process components; Results of the high-risk or error-prone processes selected for ongoing measurement and analysis; results of input from patients and families participation in improving patient safety is obtained; report medical/health care errors description of education and training programs that are maintaining and improving employee proficiency and supporting approach to patient care (Ihi.org,2011).
Think of a typical car accident and the steps needed to inform an insurance provider. Parties take down each other’s information, take photos of the incident, and give it all to the insurance company. In forensic reporting, all documents act as insurance. Barnett (2015) explains that ineffective forensic reporting can pose as a risk management issue. Should a matter arise, effective documentation allows the practitioner the opportunity provide a transcript of the interaction with the client.
A candidly of risk occurs in every organisation. Governance principals and the occupational health and safety urge that the organisations take reasonable measures to hinder loss, charge or rage to the organisational and all stakeholders/management. Injury and accidents can even happen ultimately with stringent OHS and the fact that an accident when occurs, does not mean that someone is liable if all responsible steps for prevention or minimisation has been taken.
Constructing a set of guidelines on managing the preliminary investigation for a criminal case is very important as it gives a baseline for officers to follow to help prevent errors in the investigation. According to Hess and Orthmann (2010), “The initial response is crucial to the success of an investigation. Although it is popularly believed that cases are won or lost in court, more cases actually are lost during the first hour of an investigation … than in court” (p. 14). After containing the incident, officers upon arrive will begin examining the scene by taking photographs, sketches or videos. After the scene has been recorded visually, officers will search for evidence, and then collect it for examination and processing while documenting what has been found during the search for clues. The victims, suspects, and any witnesses will be questioned. Officers will canvas neighborhoods to locate any witnesses that may not have been on the scene. All information provided by witnesses and observed by officers will also be noted and recorded.
Although workplace accidents are very common, the majority of them can be prevented. As a company, you are obliged by the law to protect your employees, so it is important to take the necessary actions that will minimize the risk of accidents (Intelligent HQ, 2015).
Offense reports are usually one of the more detailed, if not the most detailed of police reports. These reports generally contain considerably “more information about the particular methods a crime has been carried out, the specific injuries or property damages sustained by a victim and all the different directions an officer took to investigate the crime” (Redwine). These reports usually contain all of the necessary information to obtain arrest warrants for the suspects, so that means that most of that information is not needed on the arrest report once the suspect is taken into custody. This form provides blank spaces for hand written information as well as a number of small boxes to be filled in. Most of the pages have coded numbers. These numbers refer to each specific crime, victim, witness, suspect and piece of property involved in the offense (Redwine). They take up most of the pages, and there is little where you have to actually write down a lot. Most of it is just filling in what number it