Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

277 The employer must report to a health and safety officer employed with the Transport Canada Marine Safety Office the date, time, location and nature of any accident, occupational disease or other hazardous occurrence that has one of the following results, as soon as possible but not later than 24 hours after becoming aware of that result:

• (a) the death of an employee;

• (b) a missing employee;

• (c) a disabling injury to two or more employees;

• (d) an employee’s loss of consciousness as a result of an electric shock, a toxic atmosphere or an oxygen-deficient atmosphere;

• (e) an employee’s loss of a body member or a part of one or the complete loss of the usefulness of a body member or a part of one;

• (f) the permanent impairment of an employee’s body function;

• (g) a fire or an explosion;

• (h) damage to a boiler or pressure vessel that results in fire or the rupture of the boiler or pressure vessel;

• (i) damage to a persons transfer apparatus that renders it unserviceable, or a free fall of a persons transfer apparatus; or

• (j) work place violence.