Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 444

444 Health monitoring records

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure that health monitoring reports in relation to a worker carrying out work for the business or undertaking are kept as a confidential record—

(a) identified as a record in relation to the worker; and

(b) for at least 40 years after the record is made.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—12 1 / 2 penalty units; or

(b) for a body corporate—60 penalty units.

(2) The person must ensure that the health monitoring report and results of a worker are not disclosed to another person without the worker’s written consent.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—12 1 / 2 penalty units; or

(b) for a body corporate—60 penalty units.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the record is disclosed under section 442 or 443 or to a person who must keep the record confidential under a duty of professional confidentiality.