Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) For the purposes
of section 23I(2)(a) of the Act, the kinds of injury incurred by an
employee to be notified by an employer to the Commissioner are —
(a) a
fracture of the skull, spine or pelvis;
(b) a
fracture of any bone —
(i)
in the arm, other than in the wrists or hand;
(ii)
in the leg, other than a bone in the ankle or foot;
(c) an
amputation of an arm, a hand, finger, finger joint, leg, foot, toe or toe
joint;
(d) the
loss of sight of an eye;
(e) any
injury other than an injury of a kind referred to in paragraphs (a) to
(d) which, in the opinion of a medical practitioner, is likely to prevent the
employee from being able to work within 10 days of the day on which the
injury occurred.
(2) For the purposes
of section 23I(3) of the Act, notification of an injury to which
section 23I(2)(a) of the Act applies is to be made —
(a) in
the form of Form 1 in Schedule 2; or
(b) by
telephone.
(3) The prescribed
particulars for the purposes of the notification of an injury to which
section 23I(2)(a) of the Act applies are —
(a) name
and business address of the employer;
(b)
name, sex and occupation of the employee;
(c)
address of the place at which the injury was incurred;
(d) date
and time the injury was incurred;
(e)
brief description of how the injury was incurred and the type of machine or
equipment, if any, involved;
(f)
nature of the injury or, where applicable, report of death; and
(g) the
place to which the employee has been taken.
[Regulation 2.4 amended in Gazette
14 Dec 2004 p. 6011.]