What must I do?
If you are an employer or in control of premises
If you are an employer
If you are an employer, you must report any work-related deaths, injuries, cases of disease, or near misses involving your employees wherever they are working by calling the Incident Contact Centre as soon as possible, or report using an alternative method.
If you are in control of premises,
If you are in control of premises, you must report any work-related deaths and injuries to members of the public and self-employed people on your premises, and near miss incidents that occur on your premises. Just call the Incident Contact Centre on 0845 300 99 23, or report using an alternative method.
If you are self-employed
If you are working in someone else’s premises and suffer either a major injury or an over-three-day injury, then the person in control of the premises will be responsible for reporting, so, where possible, you should make sure they know about it.
All they have to do is call the Incident Contact Centre and answer a few questions about the incident.
If there is a reportable accident while you are working on your own premises, or if a doctor tells you that you have a work-related disease or condition, then you need to report it.
Just call the Incident Contact Centre on 0845 300 99 23 or report using an alternative method.
If you are a gas supplier
If you are a distributor, filler, importer or supplier of flammable gas and you learn, either directly or indirectly that someone has died or suffered a major injury in connection with the gas you distributed, filled, imported or supplied, then this must be reported immediately.
Call the Incident Contact Centre on 0845 300 99 23 or complete the Report of a Flammable Gas Incident form (F2508G1) online.
If you are a gas fitter
If you are an installer of gas appliances registered with the Council for Registered Installers (Gas Safe Register), you must provide details of any gas appliances or fittings that you consider to be dangerous, to such an extent that people could die or suffer a major injury, because the design, construction, installation, modification or servicing could result in:
- an accidental leakage of gas;
- inadequate combustion of gas or ;
- inadequate removal of products of the combustion of gas.
Call the Incident Contact Centre on 0845 300 99 23 or complete the Report of a Dangerous Gas Fitting form (F2508G2) online.
If you are an employee
If you are an employee that has been injured at work, seen a dangerous occurrence, or your doctor has certified that you have a work related reportable disease, you must inform your employer or the person in control of the premises as it is their responsibility to report the incident.
'Just call the Incident Contact Centre on 0845 300 99 23 or report using an alternative method.
If you are a doctor
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