FOI request (FOIR-627095794)

RIDDOR

Requested Mon 01 July 2024
Responded Fri 02 August 2024

Under the Freedom of Information Act, and with relation to the below site or sites operated by Asda Stores Limited (or other companies within the Asda group), please can you provide me with details of:

1. The number of RIDDOR reports that have been made regarding incidents at each site, broken down by the financial years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24.

2. The cause of each such incident, broken down by broad heading, where this information is held.

3. Copies of any health and safety inspection reports held by the authority that arose from inspections of the below site or sites during the same period.

4. Copies of any reports arising from health and safety investigations held by the authority that took place in response to incidents at the below site or sites during the same period.

5. Details of complaints made about the site or sites by members of the public during the same period, including the numbers and reasons for such complaints, and copies of the complaints where they are held in a reasonably accessible and anonymised format.

The site or sites in question are:

ASDA, ST LEONARDS ON SEA STORE 4338, BATTLE ROAD, ST LEONARDS ON SEA, HASTINGS, TN37 7AA

If the address/addresses are identifiable in your system with minor variations to the address given here then I would be grateful if the response could be returned for the relevant address as you hold it.

Response

1.

2019/20 - 5

2020/21 - 1

2021/22 - 1

2022/23 - 0

2023/24 - 1

2.

2019/20 - Reported as: 1x Struck against, 1x Struck by object, 1x Fall from height, 2x Slip trip fall same level.

2020/21 - Reported as: 1x Slip trip fall same level.

2021/22 - Reported as: 1x Slip trip fall same level.

2023/24 - Reassigned to HSE as did not fall under local authority remit (peripatetic worker).

3. 31x COVID-19 reactive inspections during this period reported under Outbreak Control. No inspection reports available. (Health and Safety inspections are no longer completed by Local Authorities. Basic Health and Safety inspections are tied into food inspections for food premises and reactive inspections are completed in response to complaints.)

4. See attached file.

5. 4x COVID-19 complaints during this period: 3x Social distancing and 1x PPE not worn by public.