Workplace Safety and Health (Incident Reporting) Regulations

Duty to report accident leading to injury

6.—(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), where —

(a)	an employee meets with an accident at a workplace on or after 1 September 2020; and
(b)	the employee is certified by a registered medical practitioner or registered dentist to be unfit for work, or to require hospitalisation or to be placed on light duties, on account of the accident,

the employer of that employee must submit a report to the Commissioner of the accident within 10 days after the date the employer first has notice of the accident.

[S 735/2020 wef 01/09/2020]

(1A) Paragraph (1) does not apply if, before the expiry of the period specified in paragraph (1) —

(a)	the employer has notified the Commissioner of the accident under regulation 4(1); and
(b)	a report of the accident (containing information that the accident has led to the death of the employee) has been submitted to the Commissioner under regulation 4(3).

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(2) Where an employee meets with an accident at a workplace which is reported under paragraph (1), and subsequently dies as a result of the injury, the employer of that employee shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable, notify the Commissioner of the death.

(3) Where any person who is not at work or any self-employed person meets with an accident at a workplace which requires him to be taken to a hospital for treatment in respect of that injury, the occupier of the workplace shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable, notify the Commissioner of the accident.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation, an employer has notice of an accident when either of the following events occurs:

(a)

the employee informs any of the following persons of the date and place of the accident and the cause of the injury:

(i)	the employer;
(ii)	the foreman or any other person under whose supervision the employee was employed at the time of the accident;
(iii)	any person designated by the employer pursuant to section 35(2)(a)(iii) of the Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 (Act 27 of 2019);

(b)

the employer has knowledge of the accident by any other means.

[S 735/2020 wef 01/09/2020]

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