Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 712

712 Duty to preserve incident sites

(1) The person with management or control of relevant premises at which a notifiable incident has happened must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the site where the incident happened is not disturbed until an inspector arrives at the site or any earlier time that an inspector directs.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(2) In subsection (1) a reference to a site includes any goods, plant, substance, structure or thing associated with the notifiable incident.

(3) Subsection (1) does not prevent any action—

(a) to assist an injured person; or

(b) to remove a deceased person; or

(c) that is essential to make the site safe or to minimise the risk of a further notifiable incident; or

(d) that is associated with a police investigation; or

(e) for which an inspector or the regulator has given permission.