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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Miscellaneous provisions - Administration - Information sharing

200: Coroner may call for report on fatal accident

You could also call this:

“Coroner can request a report about workplace deaths”

If a coroner asks, the regulator must give them a written report about an investigation. This investigation can be finished or still happening. It’s about a deadly accident that happened at a workplace. The regulator is the one who does the investigation. They have to write down what they found out about how the accident occurred. This helps the coroner understand what happened.

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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Administration: Information sharing

200Coroner may call for report on fatal accident

  1. If requested by a coroner, the regulator must give the coroner a written report of an investigation that the regulator has carried out, or is carrying out, on the circumstances of any fatal accident that occurs at a workplace.

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