§ Dan NorrisTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many recorded attacks there were upon public transport employees in each of the years from 1992 to date. [110239]
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§ Mr. MeacherThe only statutory reporting system for attacks on employees in public sector transport is the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR), which came into effect on 1 April 1996. RIDDOR defined, for the first time, an "accident" as including
an act of non-consensual violence done to a person at work".RIDDOR requires the reporting of all incidents which cause a fatality or major injury, or result in the employee being unable to work or to undertake the full range of their normal duties, for more than three days.
Reported assaults on employees in public transport sectors subject to RIDDOR are as follows:
Number 1996–97 522 1997–98 577 1998–99 1651 1 Provisional figure