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Is coronavirus (COVID-19) a reportable disease under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR)?

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Produced in partnership with Jamas Hodivala KC of Matrix Chambers
Published on: 23 April 2020
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The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR), SI 2013/1471 sets out a scheme by which various deaths, injuries and occupational diseases which occur in the workplace are to be reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The purpose of RIDDOR is to enable the HSE to ascertain where and how risks arise in the workplace and whether they need to be investigated.

With certain limited exceptions, health and safety legislation applies to all ‘employers’ and ‘undertakings’ regardless of where work is conducted. As employers and undertakings have sought to follow Government guidance on ‘Guidance for employers and businesses on coronavirus (COVID-19)’, many people have now been instructed to work from home wherever possible. For these people, the home has now become the ‘workplace’—health and safety legislation continues to apply to those working from home.

For the purpose of this Q&A, in order to be reportable under RIDDOR the incident must be:

  1. a ‘work-related accident

Jamas Hodivala
Jamas Hodivala, KC

Jamas' has advised and represented a large number of corporates, based in both the UK and US, which are under investigation by the police, HMRC, Serious Fraud Office, Health & Safety Executive and the Environment Agency. He is often instructed at an early stage of an investigation to advise on the legality of investigatory powers, for example, he acted for the claimant in R (KBR, Inc.) v SFO relating to a US corporate's challenge to the extraterritoriality of a s.2 Notice issued by the SFO, R (Panesar and others) v HMRC on the jurisdiction for a prosecutor to use s.59 proceedings to apply to retain unlawfully seized material and acted for a FTSE-listed UK company to prevent a regulator's retention of LPP material taken by a whistle-blower. He is currently acting for large corporate charged with fraud post-Ivey and also acted for one of the world's main ejection seat manufacturers in HSE v Martin Baker Ltd. He has also represented individuals in bribery and corruption allegations, having acted in R v Majeed and others (Pakistan test match spot-fixing), R v Westfield (Essex cricketer spot-fixing), represented the Sun's Royal Correspondent in R v Larcombe and others, a District Reporter R v Pyatt and others, and also successfully appealed a journalist's conviction in R v France, all prosecuted in separate trials as part of Operation Elveden.

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