OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (MARITIME INDUSTRY) ACT 1993 - SECT 107 Notifying and reporting accidents and dangerous occurrences
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (MARITIME INDUSTRY) ACT 1993 - SECT 107
Notifying and reporting accidents and dangerous occurrences(1) If, at or near a workplace at which an undertaking is being conducted by the operator, there is, arising out of the conduct of the undertaking:
(a) an accident that causes the death of, or serious personal injury to, any person; or
(b) an accident that causes an employee who performs work in connection with the undertaking to be incapacitated from performing work for a period prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph; or
the operator must, in accordance with the regulations, give to the Inspectorate notice of, and a report about, the accident or dangerous occurrence.
(2) Without limiting a provision that may be made by regulations for the purposes of this section, the regulations (not being regulations made for the purpose of paragraph ( 1)(b)) may prescribe:
(a) the time within which, and the manner in which, notice of an accident or dangerous occurrence is to be given, and the form of such a notice; and
(b) the time within which, and the manner in which, a report of
an accident or dangerous occurrence is to be given, and the form of such a
report.