SCHEDULE 13AMENDMENTS AND REVOCATIONS

PART 1Amendments

Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 201341

1

The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 M1 are amended as follows.

2

For regulation 15(3)(c) (restriction on parallel requirements) substitute—

c

where the requirements have different time limits—

i

in any case where any of those requirements is a requirement to make a report in relation to a reportable incident falling within paragraph 1(3) of Part 1 of Schedule 1, the time limit in relation to that incident is complied with;

ii

in any other case, the shortest time limit is complied with; and

3

In paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 (reporting and recording procedures)—

a

in sub-paragraph (1)(b) after “incident”, in the second place in which it occurs, insert “ or, in the case of an incident falling within sub-paragraph (3), within 10 working days of the incident ”;

b

after sub-paragraph (2) insert—

3

A reportable incident falls within this sub-paragraph if it relates to a dangerous occurrence of a class specified in—

a

paragraph 20 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 in relation to an offshore workplace; or

b

Part 6 of that Schedule.

4

For the purposes of—

a

sub-paragraph (1)(b), “working day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of Great Britain; and

b

sub-paragraph (3), “offshore workplace” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1), but as if the words in parenthesis in that definition had no effect.