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ABC Nursery School | The Den | Middlecroft Road | Inkersall |
Chesterfield | Derbyshire | S43 3NH
Policy correct as of 01/04/2016
Recording and Reporting of Accidents and
Incidents
Policy Statement
We follow the guidelines of the Reporting Injuries, Diseases and
Dangerous Occurrences (RIDDOR) for the reporting of accidents and
incidents. Child protection matters or behavioural incidents between
children are not regarded as incidents and there are separate
procedures for this
Procedures
Our accident book:
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Is kept safely and accessibly
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Is accessible to all staff and volunteers, who know how to
complete it
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Is reviewed fortnightly
Ofsted is notified of any injury requiring treatment by a general
practitioner or hospital doctor, or the death of a child or adult.
When there is any injury requiring general practitioner or hospital
treatment to a child, parent, volunteer or visitor or where there is a
death of a child or adult on the premises, we make a report to the
Health and Safety Executive using the format for the Reporting of
Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences
Dealing with Incidents
We meet our legal requirements for the safety of our employees by
complying with RIDDOR (the Reporting of Injury, Disease and
Dangerous Occurrences)
We report to the Health and Safety Executive:
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Any accident to a member of staff requiring treatment by a
general practitioner or hospital
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Any dangerous occurrences. This may be an event that causes
injury or fatalities or an event that does not cause an accident but
could have done, such as a gas leak
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Any dangerous occurrence is recorded in our incident book
Our incident book:
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We have ready access to telephone numbers for emergency
services, including local police. Where we are responsible for the
premises we have contact numbers for gas and electricity
emergency services, and plumber
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Where we rent premises we ensure we have access to the
person responsible and that there is a shared procedure for
dealing with emergencies
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We keep an incident book for recording incidents including those
that are reportable to the Health and Safety Executive as above
These incidents include:
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Break in, burglary, theft of personal or the setting's property
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An intruder gaining unauthorised access to the premises
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Fire, flood, gas leak or electrical failure
Health and Safety - Recording and Reporting of Accidents
and Incidents:
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Attack on member of staff or parent on the premises or nearby
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Any racist incident involving staff or family on the nursery
premises
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Death of a child
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A terrorist attack, or threat of one
In the incident book we record:
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The date and time of the incident
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Nature of the event
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Who was affected
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What was done about it
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If it was reported to the police
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If so a crime number
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Any follow up, or insurance claim, will also be recorded
In the unlikely event of a terrorist attack: we follow the advice of the
emergency services with regard to evacuation medical aid and
contacting children's families. Our standard Fire Safety Policy will be
followed and staff will take charge of their key children. The incident is
recorded when the threat is averted
In the unlikely event of a terrorist attack: we follow the advice of the
emergency services with regard to evacuation, medical aid and
contacting children's families. Our standard Fire Safety Policy will be
followed and staff will take charge of their key children. The incident is
recorded when the threat is averted.
In the unlikely event of a child dying on the premises: the
emergency services are called, and the advice of these services are
followed
The incident book is not for recording issues of concern involving a
child, this is recorded on our child's incident forms.