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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

  (c)   a dangerous occurrence;

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.