107Notifying and reporting accidents and dangerous occurrences

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.