256   Register of injuries

(1)  A register of injuries must be kept in some readily accessible place at every mine, quarry, construction site, factory, workshop, office or shop.

(2)  A worker employed at any such mine, quarry, construction site, factory, workshop, office or shop, or any person acting on the worker’s behalf, may enter in the register of injuries particulars of any injury received by the worker.

(3)  The regulations may prescribe the form of a register of injuries and the particulars to be entered in the register.

(4)  If particulars of an injury are duly entered in a register of injuries as soon as possible after an injury happened, the entry is sufficient notice of the injury for the purposes of this Act.

(5)  If subsection (1) is contravened, the manager of the mine or quarry, or the occupier of the construction site, factory, workshop, office or shop, is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.