Information Commissioner's Office

Health and Safety Executive

26 January 2017, Education (Other)

The complainant made a request for information relating to an investigation carried out by the HSE into the unreported RIDDOR incident of cancer developed by a student working at a named university. The HSE provided the complainant with some information but withheld some information under regulation 12(4)(e), 12(5)(b) and 13 EIR. The Commissioner’s decision is that the HSE has correctly applied regulation 12(5)(b) to all documents to which it has been applied apart from documents 36, 39 and 41. The Commissioner does not consider that regulation 12(4)(e) was applied correctly to document 41 however it was applied correctly to documents 36 and 39. The Commissioner does consider that regulation 13 has been applied correctly (regulation 13 has not been applied to document 41). The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose document 41.

EIR 12(4)(e): Partly upheld EIR 12(5)(b): Partly upheld EIR 13: Not upheld