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36 Notification and reporting of accidents, dangerous occurrences, etc.

27.—(1) The Minister may by regulations require an employer, an occupier, a registered medical practitioner or any other person to notify or to submit a report to the Commissioner, in the event of an accident, a dangerous occurrence or an occupational disease in a prescribed workplace.

(2) Regulations made under subsection (1) may apply to—
 * (a) a workplace which is not specified in the First Schedule; and
 * (b) a person who is an exempt person at work specified in the Sixth Schedule.

PART VII SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS Workplace safety and health officers and co-ordinators

28.—(1) Every workplace within the prescribed class or description of workplaces shall have appointed in respect thereof a workplace safety and health officer or a workplace safety and health co-ordinator.

(2) For the purposes of this section, the Minister may prescribe—
 * (a) the manner of appointment of a workplace safety and health officer and a workplace safety and health co-ordinator;
 * (b) the functions and duties of a workplace safety and health officer and a workplace safety and health co-ordinator; and
 * (c) the powers of a workplace safety and health officer and a workplace safety and health co-ordinator, being necessary powers for the officer or co-ordinator, as the case may be, to discharge his functions and duties under this Act.

Workplace safety and health committees

29.—(1) Every workplace within the prescribed class or description of workplaces shall have appointed in respect thereof a workplace safety and health committee.