Victorian Consolidated Regulations Victorian Consolidated Regulations(1) An employer must ensure that any report resulting from the medical examination or other health monitoring of a person required under these Regulations, and any summary of the results of such a report, is kept confidential except in the circumstances set out in subregulation (2).
Penalty: 100 penalty units for a natural person;
500 penalty units for a body corporate.
(2) An employer must provide a copy of a report or summary referred to in subregulation (1) to—
(a) the person to whom the report or summary relates as soon as reasonably possible after the employer receives the report or summary; and
(b) if the person to whom the report or summary relates authorises in writing a third party to have access to the report or summary, that third party; and
(c) if the Authority requests a copy of the report or summary, or if the employer is otherwise required by these Regulations to give the Authority a copy of the report or summary, the Authority.
Penalty: 100 penalty units for a natural person;
500 penalty units for a body corporate.
Note
Section 69 of the Act provides that the health and safety representative of
the members of a designated work group must be allowed access to information
that an employer has relating to the health and safety of the members of
the group. The section permits a health and safety representative to have
access to relevant medical information relating
to an employee's health and
safety that does not identify individual employees and, with the consent of an
employee, medical information that identifies that employee.