§ Mr. Prescottasked the Secretary of State for Transport what differences there are between the requirements of accident reports by shipowners under statutory instrument 876 and the requirements set out for employees and those proposed by the Health and Safety Executive in paragraph 9 of the proposals for revised arrangements for reporting accidents, ill-health and dangerous occurrences at work.
§ Mr. RidleyThe reporting of accidents and dangerous occurrencies is required by the Merchant Shipping (Safety Officials and Reporting of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrencies) Regulations 1982 — SI 1982 No 876. These reports are to be used in broadly the same way as is envisaged in paragraph 9 of the Health and Safety Commission's consultative document entitled "Proposals for revised arrangements for reporting accidents, ill health and dangerous occurrences at work". There are differences in the reporting systems. The form used for merchant shipping does not require the notification of diseases, it does not identify the person involved and it provides for a greater range of possible causes of accidents. These differences arise before the form has been designed to cater for the particular needs of the shipping industry.