The Accident and Near-miss Tool helps organisations reduce the burden of managing incident records while ensuring compliance with Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR).
It automates the collection of accident and near-miss records, allowing teams to filter by location, type or date. This helps you understand more deeply how risks occur and take informed preventive measures.
The tool guides duty holders through HSE’s step-by-step investigation framework (HSG245), providing expert advice on investigating incidents and preventing recurrence. This supports accurate reporting, consistent investigation and effective incident management.
To learn more:
How it works
- Works on any device via online browser
- Simple setup with step-by-step guidance
- Configure the system by site, department, activity or function
- Automatically flags potential RIDDOR-reportable incidents
- Sends instant alerts to designated contacts
- Securely stores all submissions in a searchable central database
Overall, the Accident and Near-miss Tool helps health and safety teams prioritise reports effectively, while structuring data to reveal underlying trends and root causes.
Key benefits
- Supports effective investigation using HSE’s step-by-step process
- Aids compliance with RIDDOR and social security law record-keeping
- Easy to use and fully configurable
- Encourages worker engagement in identifying risks
- Quickly filters and retrieves relevant reports
- Provides a dashboard for performance monitoring and trend analysis
- Fully GDPR compliant and cyber secure
Licence pricing
£99.00 + VAT per year - licence price includes one administrator account to view, manage and analyse records.
You can complete unlimited accident and near-miss reports, regardless of how many administrator accounts your organisation holds.
An administrator account is intended for individuals responsible for:
- completing and submitting RIDDOR reports
- investigating incidents and reviewing findings
- overseeing compliance and ensuring accurate reporting
If your organisation has several people in these roles, you will need multiple administrator accounts.
Please order the number you require or speak to a member of the team who can advise.
We aim to enable access to your account within two working days.
Licence terms
- Licences run for 12 months from the date access is granted
- Terms and conditions apply once access is provided
For more information
Demonstration: online booking
Email: hseorders@tso.co.uk
Phone: +44(0) 1603 385412
Background
The Safety Triangle (or Heinrich’s Triangle) is a widely used framework in health and safety management. It shows the relationship between near misses, accidents and serious incidents (RIDDOR).
For every serious incident, there are many more minor accidents and even more near misses - highlighting the importance of addressing smaller events to prevent major ones.
Dangerous occurrences
By law, certain workplace injuries, near misses and work-related diseases must be reported to HSE under RIDDOR.
Accidents
If your organisation has more than 10 employees, you must keep a physical or digital accident book under social security law.
Keeping records helps identify accident patterns, manage risk and support insurance claims.
Near misses
Near misses are incidents that were narrowly avoided. They are valuable indicators of weaknesses in processes, safeguards or culture.
Capturing and analysing every near miss, incident and accident helps identify and address potential risks. Reviewing underlying causes reduces risk, improves safety and saves time and money.
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