Health & Safety in the Workplace

We inspect approximately 1,600 workplaces in Mole Valley to ensure employers are effectively managing the health, safety and welfare of their employees and customers.

The Health and Safety Executive has identified five priority topic areas that contribute the most to workplace injury and illness at businesses inspected by local authorities. These are:

• Work at height
• Musculoskeletal disorders
• Slips and trips
• Stress and mental health at work
• Workplace transport

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Accidents at work

If you are an employer, self-employed or in control of a work premises, you are legally required to report certain work-related accidents, diseases or dangerous occurrences without delay.

You should report:

• Deaths
• Major injuries
• Seven day injuries (where an employee or self employed person is away from work or is unable to work for more than seven consecutive days)
• Injuries to members of the public or people not at work, where they are taken from the scene of an accident to hospital

The regulations also require you to report:

• Dangerous occurrences
• Occupational diseases

How to make a report

Visit the Health and Safety Executive website where you can report all incidents online.

For reporting fatal and major injuries only you can call 0845 300 9923 (Monday – Friday, 8.30am – 5pm).

Reporting seven day injuries

You need only report injuries resulting in more than seven days incapacitation (not including the day on which the accident happened).

Incapacitation means that an employee is unable to carry out work they would be expected to do as part of their normal job.

The deadline to report more than a seven day injury must be within 15 days from the day of the accident.

Employers must still keep a record of all ‘over three day injuries’ within their own accident books.