Summary / Citation: Employers have a duty to notify the Chief Inspector about each incident occurring at the workplace where any person dies, becomes unconscious, suffers the loss of a limb or part of a limb, or is otherwise injured or becomes ill from occupational disease to such a degree that he or she is likely either to die or suffer a permanent physical defect or is likely to be unable either to work or to continue with the activity for which he or she was employed or is usually employed for a period of a least fourteen days (§ 101(1)(a)).
Employers have the obligation to report also near misses to the Chief Inspector. Such near misses include incidents where the health or safety of any person was endangered and where a dangerous substance was spilled (§ 101(1)(c).
Employers are required to keep a register describing, inter alia, the occupational diseases occurring in the workplace of which notice is required to be sent to the Chief inspector. The occupier of a factory or workplace has a duty to submit to an inspector such extracts from the register as the Inspector may require for the purpose of the execution of his or her duties under the OHS Act (§ 90(1)(d),(2)).
• Occupational Health and Safety Act, 2003 (No. 5). (§§ 101(1)(a),(c);90(1)(d),(2))
Related CEACR Comments
• Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Direct Request 1995
