reg 18 Register of workers and notification of cases
(1) The employer must enter in a register the names of workers responsible for carrying out activities in which they are, or are at risk of being, exposed to asbestos, indicating the nature and duration of the activity and the exposure to which they have been subjected. (2) The employer must give access to the register referred to in paragraph (1) to— (a) every doctor or other medical authority responsible for health surveillance of workers entered in the register, (b) each worker as respects the results in the register which relate to that worker personally, and (c) the workers and their representatives as respects anonymous, collective information in the register. (3) The employer must keep the register referred to in paragraph (1) for at least 40 years from the date of the last entry made in it, and if the undertaking ceases trading must notify the Secretary of State immediately in writing and make the register available to the Secretary of State. (4) The employer must notify the Secretary of State immediately on becoming aware of any case of— (a) asbestosis, (b) mesothelioma, (c) bronchial carcinoma, or (d) gastro-intestinal carcinoma, which is diagnosed in any worker whose details are listed in the register referred to in paragraph (1), and the Secretary of State must keep any information so notified in a register of recognised cases of asbestosis, mesothelioma, bronchial carcinoma, and gastro-intestinal carcinoma.