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Exemptions
No applications were received under the exemption provisions
of Section 46 of this Act.
Notification of Accidents
Notice of an accident in the prescribed form is required to be
sent to the appropriate enforcing authority if it occurs in any
premises to which the Act applies and causes loss of life or disables
an employee for more than three days from doing his usual
work. Each quarter a return is made to the Ministry of Labour.
Seventy-six notifications were received during the year all but
one of which related to non-fatal injuries and of these, the majority
were of a minor nature. Each case was investigated by the respective
District Public Health Inspector and advice was given where
necessary. In 19 cases it was considered necessary to write to the
firms concerned and the measures suggested to prevent the
recurrence of similar accidents were readily implemented.
An inquest was held in respect of the one fatality, that of a young
employee run over by a fork-lift truck in his firm's vehicle-loading
compound. Apparently the deceased, neither qualified nor entitled
to use the machine, asked a young colleague to teach him to drive
the truck. Whilst clinging to the side of the truck he had jumped
or slipped.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
The reported accidents and their analysis for the year under
review are summarised in the following tables :—