South Australian Current Regulations South Australian Current Regulations411—Duty to obtain health monitoring report
(1) A
person conducting a business or undertaking who commissioned health monitoring
referred to 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.
Maximum penalty:
(a) In
the case of an individual—$6 000.
(b) In
the case of a body corporate—$30 000.
(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 regulation 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 regulation 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.