Reporting Accidents, Injuries and Ill Health
Protect people, preserve evidence, report accurately and support learning after events and near misses.
How to prepare for SSSTS
Connect each duty and hazard to the supervisor's workface sequence: check the task and RAMS, brief the team, establish controls, observe and intervene, then report and learn.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Immediate priorities are emergency response, preventing further harm and securing the scene.
Exam cue: Separate emergency, internal, insurer and statutory notification routes.
Concept 2
Internal reporting and investigation are wider than statutory RIDDOR reporting, which is decided against specific criteria.
Exam cue: Gather facts without blame or leading witnesses.
Concept 3
Effective investigation seeks underlying organisational and task causes rather than stopping at worker error.
Exam cue: Turn findings into owned corrective actions and wider learning.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Reporting only events that cause lost time.
Guardrail: Do not use a signature, course certificate or verbal instruction as a substitute for a missing competent plan or physical control.
Promising that every injury is automatically RIDDOR-reportable.
Guardrail: Do not use a signature, course certificate or verbal instruction as a substitute for a missing competent plan or physical control.
Blaming the last person in the chain without examining the system.
Guardrail: The examination is 30 minutes; only GE706 is named for use during the final 10 minutes.
Memory anchors
Care, Control, Communicate
Help people, secure risk and notify.
Record Near Misses
Weak signals reveal controls before serious harm.
Criteria Decide RIDDOR
Test the event against the reporting rules.
Cause Before Blame
Find why the system allowed the event.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
Next step personalized recommendations
Continue learning
Move forward only after this module is stable.
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