Notification, investigation and recording of accidents by employer

(1) Every employer shall take reasonable steps to investigate the circumstances of every accident notified to him or to his servant or agent and if there appears to be any discrepancy between the circumstances found by him as a 153 result of his investigation and the circumstances appearing from the notice given to him, he shall record the circumstances so found. (2) Where an insured person suffers personal injury as a result of an accident or alleged accident and either– (a) absents himself from work within a period of five days immediately following the day on which the accident or alleged accident happened; or (b) dies within a period of five days immediately following the day on which the accident or alleged accident happened; the employer shall report the accident in writing and furnish the particulars prescribed by Regulation 12 (2) relating thereto to the Manager within a period of seven days after the date of the accident. (3) Every employer shall– (a) keep an accident book readily accessible showing the particulars required by the Board of any accident–causing personal injury to an insured person and shall preserve such book when it is completed for a period of three years from the date of the last entry thereon: Provided that the employer shall be deemed to have complied with this Regulation sufficiently if the required particulars are recorded in any other register maintained by him; (b) furnish to the Manager or officer of the Board, within such reasonable period as may be specified by the Manager, such information and particulars as may be required, concerning– (i) any accident or alleged accident suffered by a person employed by him in respect of which benefit may be claimed or payable; (ii) the nature and relevant circumstances relating to any occupation for which a disease or injury is prescribed under the Act in which any person to whom or in respect of whom benefit may be payable under the Regulations was or is alleged to have been employed by him.