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Have your say: HSE consults on changes to RIDDOR time limits

The proposals are that RIDDOR reports to the HSE or the employer's Local Authority on employees absent from work after a reportable incident or injury should be submitted after seven days, rather than the current three.

Given that employees expected to be off work for more than a week must obtain a fit note from their GP, the proposal would mean that all employees with a reportable injury will have been seen by a GP before returning to work.

Responses must be made before 9 May 2011.

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Download the consultation CD233 - Proposed amendment to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) from the HSE website