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IntroductionThe information provided here covers a range of health and safety incidents as set out by the HSE Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences regulations 1995 (RIDDOR). Cases include both MOD and non-MOD personnel: regular Service personnel, members of the volunteer and regular reserves if they have been mobilised, MOD civilian staff, and any other civilians on MOD property or injured in or by MOD vehicles. Civilians are required to notify the HSE when they are involved in an incident. For Service personnel, there is no current legal requirement, set out by the RIDDOR, for their injuries to be notified to the HSE. However, all these incidents should be recorded on the MOD's Central Health and Safety Project system (CHASP). The CHASP system was introduced in 1997 to enable the MOD to monitor and analyse accident trends throughout the Department and ensure compliance with current health and safety legislation. A MOD reporting form should be raised for recording any of the following events: - deaths resulting from work activity; - injuries or ill health to MOD employees resulting from their work activity, which in normal circumstances would cause more than one hour loss of work time; - deaths, injuries or illness to any other person where the cause might be attributable to MOD activities or where it has occurred on MOD land or property, which can be linked to a failure in responsibility by the MOD with regard to land or property; - including those involving hostile activity during peacekeeping (excluding war); - an event which would normally have resulted in one of the above outcomes but no person was affected (near hit, maritime hazardous incident or an event deemed worthy of reporting such as fire or property damage). |
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| Table 3.8 Work-related fatalities by type of incident, UK Service Personnel and Civilians | |||||||||||||||||||
| "Work-related fatalities" have been defined as injury related deaths occurring on-duty or on MOD property after excluding suicides. "Hostile action" is the combination of the JCCC reporting categories killed in action and died of wounds for operational deaths that are a result of hostile fire.
Between 1997 and 2006 the UK regular Armed Forces have been deployed to Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Road traffic accidents are those which occur on public highways whilst the Service personnel are on duty. A "work place incident" is the result of a fatality for whom the MOD is responsible, that is they are deemed to be 'within the wire', thus work place incidents will include any vehicle incidents that occur on MOD property. Although there are no known data quality issues, the data in this table are outside the scope of National Statistics because they do not currently meet all of the high professional quality assurance standards set out in the National Statistics Code of Practice, with regards to the guidelines on release practice procedures. |
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Type of Incident |
1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |||||||||
Total |
43 | 28 | 18 | 30 | 25 | 57 | 43 | 39 | 77 | 101 | |||||||||
Hostile action |
1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 38 | 10 | 21 | 47 | 71 | |||||||||
Road traffic accident-on duty |
22 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 11 | |||||||||
Work place incident |
20 | 17 | 13 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 23 | 11 | 22 | 19 | |||||||||
| Source: DASA (Health Information) | |||||||||||||||||||