Health and Safety
Our aims and objectives are to ensure through education and enforcement that employers ensure the Health, Safety and welfare of their employees by providing safe working conditions and giving adequate training in safe working practices to minimise the risk of illness or injury.
We also are concerned to protect the health and safety of people such as customers in a shop or guests at a hotel who may be affected by work activities.
We are entirely impartial and we work with employers and employees with the aim of securing satisfactory standards.
Our work involves:
- Providing advice and information free of charge
- Inspection of workplaces
- Investigation of accidents, dangerous occurrences or outbreaks of industrial disease
- Enforcement of the standards required by law, usually by advice, by legal notice, where appropriate and if absolutely necessary by prosecution
We endeavour always to ensure that our requirements are proportionate to the degree of risk to health or safety. We are approachable, we take account of representations made to us and we listen and respond to anyone who is not satisfied with our actions, policies or decisions.
What happens if someone has an accident?
Under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurences Regulations, employers must notify the enforcing authority in the event of any of the following:
- a death or major injury e.g. fracture, loss of consciousness, amputation
- an over-three-day injury (that is when and employee or self-employed person has an accident at work and is unable to work for over three days, but does not have a major injury);
- a work-related disease; and
- a dangerous occurrence (this is when something happens that does not result in a reportable injury, but which clearly could have done).
Please send postal reports to the following address:
Incident Contact Centre
Caerphilly Business Park
Caerphilly
CF83 3GG
- For Internet reports please go to the Riddor website (see External Links box on right)
- By telephone (charged at local rate call): 0845 300 9923
- By Fax (charged at local rate call): 0845 300 9924
- By email to the RIDDOR website (see link on right)
Any death at a workplace as the result of an accident must be reported by telephone on 0845 300 9923 (Monday - Friday between 8.30am and 5.00pm) outside of these hours you should telephone 01480 434167.
If you are unsure whether or not an accident should be reported please contact us via the Environmental Health Contact Details page or the Health and Safety Executive InfoLine Tel 0845 345 0055.