| Label | Content |
|---|---|
| Meeting: | MQT on 15 March 2024 |
| Session name: | MQT on 15/03/2024 between 10:00 and 13:00 |
| Reference: | 2024/0959 |
| Question by: | Keith Prince |
| Organisation: | City Hall Conservatives |
| Asked of: | The Mayor |
| Category: | Transport |
Question
Bus Operator RIDDOR Notifications recorded in TfL's Incident Reporting Procedure
In your responses to questions 2024/0765, 2024/0766 and 2024/0767, you admitted that "Transport for London does not receive copies of notifications to the Health and Safety Executive made by the bus operating companies as part of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR)" but "it does receive this information as part of its incident reporting procedure which contains a requirement for bus operators to record incidents that have been reported under RIDDOR".
For the avoidance of doubt, for the period 2015 to year to date and broken down annually, can you provide me with the number of incidents that have been reported by the following bus operators annually under RIDDOR which TfL has recorded under its Incident Reporting Procedure?
1. Go Ahead London
2. Arriva London
3. Sovereign Buses
4. Abellio London
5. Stagecoach London
6. Tower Transit London
7. London United
8. RATP Dev UK Ltd
9. Metroline London
10. Uno Buses London
Answer
Bus operators, as the legally accountable organisations, are required by the RIDDOR regulations to report certain notifiable incidents to the regulator, the Health and Safety Executive. Where they have done so, Transport for London’s (TfL’s) incident reporting system contains a RIDDOR check box where this can be recorded. TfL does not use RIDDOR reports as a direct data source. Instead it has aligned its injury definitions to those used in RIDDOR reporting and, for safety performance reporting, uses recorded injuries rather than the number of RIDDOR reports as this provides a more robust metric.
In response to this question, TfL has provided data on records flagged as RIDDORs by the bus operators. This data is grouped by bus operating companies. Where data has been requested for subsidiaries of a larger company (e.g. London Sovereign is a subsidiary of RATP), these figures are included in the overall figure for the bus operating company.
*Ceased operating bus routes in London in June 2022