Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

276 If an employer becomes aware of an accident, occupational disease or other hazardous occurrence affecting any of their employees in the course of employment, the employer must, without delay,

• (a) appoint a qualified person to conduct an investigation of the hazardous occurrence;

• (b) notify the work place committee or the health and safety representative, as the case may be, of the hazardous occurrence and of the name of the person appointed to investigate it; and

• (c) take necessary measures to prevent a recurrence of the hazardous occurrence.