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RIDDOR & Incident Reporting
What has to be reported to the HSE, and what's changing under the 2026 RIDDOR review.
RIDDOR dangerous occurrences: the incidents that count even when nobody's hurt
A scaffold collapse or a crane failure with no injury can still be reportable — dangerous occurrences are RIDDOR's way of catching a genuinely serious hazard before it produces a casualty.
12 August 2026 · 6 min readWorking at height: the regulations behind the leading cause of construction fatalities
There's no minimum height threshold in UK law — the Work at Height Regulations apply the moment a fall could cause injury, whether that's from a roof or a stepladder.
31 July 2026 · 5 min readRIDDOR, explained: what has to be reported to the HSE, and when
Not every workplace accident is RIDDOR-reportable — but the categories that are carry firm timeframes, and getting the judgement wrong in either direction has real consequences.
18 July 2026 · 5 min readRIDDOR is changing in 2026 — here's what's being proposed
The HSE opened a consultation in April 2026 proposing the biggest changes to workplace injury reporting since 2013 — including construction-specific threshold changes worth watching closely.
20 June 2026 · 5 min readWhy near-miss reporting matters as much as reportable incidents
A near miss that goes unrecorded is a warning sign a site never gets to act on — and it's often the same underlying hazard that eventually produces a genuinely reportable incident.