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Work-related Death Protocol for England and Wales (WRDP)

Addendum: the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Medical Devices Division becomes a signatory to the WRDP

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Medical Devices Division became a signatory to the Work-related Death Protocol for England and Wales (WRDP) (PDF) [16] from 1 April 2012.

MHRA is an executive agency of the Department of Health with responsibility for ensuring that medicines and medical devices are effective and acceptably safe. MHRA's principal aim is to safeguard public health. The MHRA's Medical Devices Division has a role in investigating fatal and non-fatal accidents. It has powers under the various Medical Device Regulations, which implement the European Medical Devices Directives, to have products removed from the market and to prosecute manufacturers that place non-compliant or unsafe devices on the market.

By becoming a signatory to the WRDP, MHRA's Medical Devices Division has now formally agreed to follow the principles for liaison set out in the WRDP when investigating work-related fatal incidents.

This addendum does not include the MHRA Medicines Division, which has not become a signatory. It should be read in conjunction with the WRDP, other Supporting guidance[17] and MHRA/HSE Working Arrangements Agreement.

Link URLs in this page

  1. How HSE regulateshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/index.htm
  2. Overview - Our role as a regulatorhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/our-role-as-regulator.htm
  3. Strategy policy and lawhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/strategy-policy-legal.htm
  4. Advice and guidancehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/advice-information-guidance.htm
  5. Influencing and engaginghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/influencing-engaging.htm
  6. Permissioning and licensinghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/permissioning-licensing.htm
  7. How we inspecthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/how-we-inspect.htm
  8. When and how we investigate https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/when-how-investigate.htm
  9. Overview - Enforcement actionhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcement.htm
  10. Enforcement Policy Statement (EPS)https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcepolicy.htm
  11. Enforcement Management Model (EMM)https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcement-management-model.htm
  12. Working with other regulatorshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/working-with-other-regulators.htm
  13. Expert guidance on risk managementhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/expert/index.htm
  14. Register of convictions and noticeshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/convictions.htm
  15. Resourceshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/resources.htm
  16. Work-related Death Protocol for England and Wales (WRDP)https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/wrdp1.pdf
  17. Supporting guidancehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/wrdp/index.htm
  18. What to expect when a health and safety inspector callshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hsc14.htm
  19. Regulation of health and safety at workhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse51.htm
  20. Enforcement Policy Statement (EPS)https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcepolicy.htm
  21. Enforcement Management Model (EMM)https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcement-management-model.htm
  22. Enforcement guide - England and Waleshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcementguide/index.htm
  23. Enforcement guide - Scotlandhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcementguidesc/index.htm
  24. Fee for intervention (FFI)https://www.hse.gov.uk/fee-for-intervention/index.htm

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Updated 2020-07-15