Accident

An event that results in injury or ill health. (https://www.hse.gov.uk/toolbox/managing/accidents.htm) RIDDOR also interprets in Regulation 2 (1) an accident as including “an act of non-consensual physical violence done to a person at work”.

  Accident Investigation

See Adverse Event: Investigations.

  Accident Reporting

If you have an accident at work you must report it as soon as possible. A work-related injury should be recorded in an appropriate accident book, such as the HSE 'Accident Book BI 510'.

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  Adverse Event

An event which can include: • An accident; • An incident; • A dangerous occurrence (i.e. a reportable incident).

  Adverse Event: Causes

Often, an adverse event will be the consequence of a sequence of errors or failures. The causes of these failures and errors can be classified into: 1. immediate causes: the agent of injury or ill health (e.g. the mower blade); 2. underlying causes: unsafe acts and unsafe conditions (e.g. the safety guard was removed to the aerator or scarifier); 3. root causes: the failure which can be linked to other, often lesser, failures and errors (e.g. failure to identify training needs and assess competence, low priority given to risk assessment etc). Effective risk controls are needed

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  Adverse Event: Consequences

The consequence of an adverse event can be • “fatal: work-related death; • major injury/ill health: (as defined in RIDDOR, Schedule 1), including fractures (other than fingers or toes), amputations, loss of sight, a burn or penetrating injury to the eye, any injury or acute illness resulting in unconsciousness, requiring resuscitation or requiring admittance to hospital for more than 24 hours; • serious injury/ill health: where the person affected is unfit to carry out his or her normal work for more than three consecutive days; • minor injury: all other injuries,

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  Adverse Event: Investigations

Once an employer has been notified of an adverse event and been given basic information on what happened, they must decide whether it should be investigated and to what depth. The extent of the investigation should be determined by the potential consequences of the event and the likelihood of it recurring, and not just on the nature of a near miss, injury or ill health that might have occurred. The decision to investigate can be determined by relating the worst potential consequence of the adverse event with the likelihood of its recurrence. 1. In a minimal level investigation

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  Buffer Zone [1]

An area of land that is between land that is often intensively maintained and an area that needs protecting and is at higher risk of contamination, damage or harm from maintenance activities if the buffer zone did not exist.

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  Buffer Zone [2]

A distance and area in between that is maintained between an operative and a feature, property, people, or animals, whilst carrying out grounds maintenance work, especially whilst using machinery.

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  Code of Practice [1]

These are industry specific documents which offer guidance on good working practice. If the Health and Safety Executive has not produced an Approved Code of Practice, then an industry code of practice would be a reasonable approach to follow. An example of a current (in 2018) code of practice is the Code of Practice for Using Plant Protection Products.