Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 411

411 Duty to obtain health monitoring report

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking who commissioned health monitoring mentioned in this division must take all reasonable steps to obtain a health monitoring report from the registered medical practitioner who carried out or supervised the monitoring as soon as practicable after the monitoring is carried out in relation to a worker.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(2) The health monitoring report must include the following—

(a) the name and date of birth of the worker;

(b) the name and registration number of the registered medical practitioner;

(c) the name and address of the person conducting the business or undertaking who commissioned the health monitoring;

(d) the date of health monitoring;

(e) if a blood sample is taken—the date the blood sample is taken;

(f) the results of biological monitoring that indicate blood lead levels in the worker’s body;

(g) the name of the pathology service used to carry out tests;

(h) any test results that indicate that the worker has reached or exceeded the relevant blood lead level for that worker under section 415 ;

(i) any advice that test results indicate that the worker may have contracted a disease, injury or illness as a result of carrying out the lead risk work that triggered the requirement for health monitoring;

(j) any recommendation that the person conducting the business or undertaking take remedial measures, including whether the worker can continue to carry out the type of work that triggered the requirement for health monitoring;

Note—

The duty under section 415 to remove a worker from carrying out lead risk work applies even if there is no recommendation of a registered medical practitioner to do so.

(k) whether medical counselling is required for the worker in relation to the work that triggered the requirement for health monitoring.