Help centre / Right to work and compliance
Record an accident and keep risk assessments
Record an accident or a near miss in a minute, and keep the accident book and risk assessments up to date.
What you'll need: When and where it happened, Who was hurt, if anyone.
Anyone can record an accident or a near miss.
More detail
HR and managers see the Accident book, and keep risk assessments.
Record an accident
-
Step 1: Go to People and press Record an accident.
-
Step 2: Choose The day and the Place of work, and say Where exactly.
-
Step 3: Say Who was hurt?, or who was nearly hurt for a near miss.
-
Step 4: Say What happened, then press Record it.
Check the accident book (HR and managers)
-
Step 1: Go to Accident book and open an entry.
-
Step 2: If it must be reported under RIDDOR, the entry says so, with the deadline.
-
Step 3: Report it to the HSE, then record the day you reported it.
More detail
Some injuries must be reported to the Health and Safety Executive (RIDDOR): what to report.
Keep a risk assessment
-
Step 1: Go to Risk assessments and add one, with its Title and Place of work.
-
Step 2: List each Hazard, Who could be harmed and How it is controlled.
-
Step 3: Set Review by, and press Review when that day comes.
Stuck?
It says when it happened can't be in the future
Choose the day it happened: today or earlier.
I can't see the Accident book
Only whoever manages people at your employer sees the book. Anyone can still record an accident.
It says the day I reported it is wrong
The report day must be on or after the accident, and not in the future.
It says to list at least one hazard
A risk assessment needs at least one hazard before it saves.
Thanks. That helps us make the guides better.
Not legal advice. Checked against the law on 1 November 2026; we check it again by 1 May 2027, and sooner if the law changes.