Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of incidents reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) were attended by an HSE inspector in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR 2013) require dutyholders to notify enforcing authorities of certain incidents. The total number of incidents reported to the HSE under RIDDOR for each of the last three years are:

The total number of HSE investigations of incidents reported under RIDDOR 2013 for each of the last three years are:

HSE does not investigate all incidents reported to them, only the most serious work-related incidents are investigated. HSE’s Incident Selection Criteria (http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/og/ogprocedures/investigation/incidselcrits.htm) outlines the criteria for the selection of reported incidents which are investigated by HSE.