General Administration Regulations, 1994
8. Recording and investigation of incidents

 

1.    Every employer or user shall keep at a workplace or section of a workplace, as the case may be, a record in the form of Annexure 2, for a period of at least three years, which shall be open for inspection by an inspector, of all incidents which he or she is required to report in terms of section 24 of the Act and also of any other incident which resulted in the person concerned having had to receive medical treatment other than first-aid.

2.    An employer or user shall cause every incident which must be recorded in terms of subregulation (1) to be investigated by himself or a person designated by him or her or by a health and safety representative or a member of a health and safety committee within three months or within the contracted period in the case of contracted workers, and the employer or user shall cause the findings of such a person to be entered in such record.

3.    An employer shall cause such record to be examined by the health and safety committee for that workplace or section of the workplace at its next meeting and shall ensure that the chairperson of the health and safety committee endorses the record to the effect that it has been seen and that the necessary actions have been implemented and followed up: Provided that the employer shall also endorse the said record to such effects.