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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Enforcement and other matters - Inspectors and health and safety medical practitioners - Health and safety medical practitioners

181: Appointment of health and safety medical practitioners

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“Regulator can appoint doctors to assist with workplace health and safety”

The regulator can choose a medical practitioner to be a health and safety medical practitioner. This means the regulator can pick a doctor to help with health and safety matters.

When health and safety medical practitioners do their job, they have to follow the rules set by the regulator. The regulator can tell them what to do and set conditions for their work.

Every health and safety medical practitioner needs to have a special certificate that shows they are appointed to this role. The regulator decides what this certificate should look like.

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Inspectors and health and safety medical practitioners: Health and safety medical practitioners

181Appointment of health and safety medical practitioners

  1. The regulator may appoint any medical practitioner to be a health and safety medical practitioner.

  2. A health and safety medical practitioner must exercise the powers of a health and safety medical practitioner subject to the directions given and conditions (if any) for the time being imposed by the regulator.

  3. Every health and safety medical practitioner must have a certificate of appointment in a form approved by the regulator.

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