Incident Notification - Definition of Terms

the incident arose out of:

• the conduct of the employer's undertaking, or
• work performed by an employee in connection with the employer's undertaking

the work-related death of any person including a member of the public, a contractor or an employee

an injury to or disease in a person caused in the course of work for which the person needed:

• emergency treatment by a registered medical practitioner (including psychologist), or
• treatment in a hospital as a casualty, without being admitted to the hospital, or
• admission to a hospital

(Safety Arrangements Regulations, r. 2)

a work-related incapacity that leaves an employee unable to work:

• in the case of an employee who performs work in shifts - 30 or more successive shifts workable by the employee, and
• in any other case - 30 or more successive working days

(Safety Arrangements Regulations, r. 36A)

an occurence at a workplace that resulted from operations that arose from the undertaking conducted by an employer; and could have caused (but did not cause) the:

• death or serious personal injury to any person, or
• total incapacity or any employee for 30 or more consecutive shifts or days

(OHS Act, s. 5(1) and Safety Arrangements Regulations, r. 3)

• any Commonwealth premises (premises owned or occupied by the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth Authority), or
• any non-Commonwealth licensee premises (premises owned or occupied by the non-Commonwealth licensee)

in which Commonwealth or non-Commonwealth licensee employees, contractors or Commonwealth Authority employees work.

It does not include any part of premises that is primarily used as a private dwelling (OHS Act, s. 5)

Includes any place (whether enclosed or built or not), including a place under ground or under water, and includes:

• a building, aircraft, vehicle or vessel
• any structure whether fixed or moveable (such as a tent), and whether on land, on a water bed or floating on water and
• a part of a premises

(OHS Act, s. 5)