Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00418:body:0:p8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00418
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 18581–21410

the asbestos-related work but at least once every two years.

Who can carry out health monitoring?
Health monitoring must be carried out under the supervision of a registered medical practitioner with the relevant competencies. Prior to deciding who the registered medical practitioner will be, the person conducting a business or undertaking must consult the worker.

Who pays for health monitoring?
The person conducting a business or undertaking must pay all expenses relating to health monitoring.
Where there are two or more persons that have a duty to provide health monitoring to a worker, they may choose that one person organises health monitoring (known as the person who commissions the health monitoring), however the costs must be shared equally between each person unless they agree otherwise.

What information must be provided to the register medical practitioner?

The person who commissions health monitoring must provide the following information to the registered medical practitioner:
    * their name and address
    * the name and date of birth of the worker
    * a description of the work the worker is, or will be, carrying out that has triggered the requirement for health monitoring
    * whether the worker has started the work or, if the worker has commenced carrying out the work, how long this has been for.

Health monitoring report

A person who commissions health monitoring must take all reasonable steps to obtain a report from the registered medical practitioner as soon as practicable after the monitoring is carried out.
The health monitoring report must include the following information:
    * the name and date of birth of the worker
    * the name and registration number of the registered medical practitioner
    * the name and address of the person conducting the business or undertaking who commissioned the health monitoring
    * the date of the health monitoring
    * any advice that test results indicate the worker may have contracted a disease, injury or illness as a result of carrying out the work that triggered the need for health monitoring
    * any recommended remedial measures, including whether the worker can continue to carry out the work
    * whether medical counselling is required for the worker.
That person must also give a copy of the report, as soon as reasonably possibly after obtaining it from the medical practitioner, to:
    * the worker
    * the regulator, if the report contains:
       * any test results that indicate the worker may have contracted a disease, injury or illness as a result of the work that triggered the need for health monitoring
       * any recommended remedial measures, including whether the worker can continue to carry out the work
    * all other persons conducting a business or undertaking who have a duty to provide