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247.   Notification of occupational diseases and other diseases

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

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247.   Notification of occupational diseases and other diseases

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    (1)   A registered medical practitioner attending to or called in to visit a patient whom he or she believes to be suffering from an occupational disease or other disease contracted in the course of his or her employment shall, unless such a notice has been previously sent, promptly send, addressed to the Department of Labour and the Chief Medical Officer, a notice stating the name and full postal address of the patient and the disease from which, in the opinion of such medical practitioner, the patient is suffering and the name and address of the place at which, and of the employer by whom, he or she is or was last employed.

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    (2)   If a registered medical practitioner fails to send any notice in accordance with the requirements of this section, he or she shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.

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    (3)   Any employer who believes or suspects, or has reason to believe or suspect that a case of an occupational disease has occurred among the employees, shall promptly send written notice of such case in the form, and accompanied by the particulars, set out in Schedule 4 to—

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      (a)     the Department of Labour;

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      (b)     the committee;

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      (c)     the safety and health representative or trade union, if any;

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      (d)     the relevant local sanitary authority of the area within the work place where such employees are located; and (Amended by Act 6 of 2011)

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      (e)     in the case of employees employed in industrial establishments, the medical inspector for the area within which the workplace of such employees is situated,

and the provisions of this Act with respect to the notification of accidents shall apply with the necessary modification to any such case.

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    (4)   If an employer is advised by or on behalf of an employee that a claim in respect of a “prescribed disease” as defined in the National Insurance Corporation Act has been filed with the National Insurance Board by or on behalf of the employee, the employer shall give notice in writing within 4 days of being so advised, to the Department of Labour and to the committee, safety and health representative or trade union, if any, containing such information and particulars as are prescribed.

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    (5)   The Minister may, in relation to any class or description or place where employees are employed, by Regulations, apply this section to any disease, other than an occupational disease.

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