Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

4 (1) If an employer is required to keep and maintain a record, report or other document referred to in section 125 or 125.1 of the Act, the employer must keep and maintain the record, report or other document and make it readily available for examination by a health and safety officer, the work place committee or the health and safety representative, as the case may be, and the policy committee, if one exists, for the vessel to which it applies.

(2) To comply with subsection (1), the employer may use any recording system, including electronic records, if

• (a) measures are taken to ensure that the records contained in the recording systems are protected, by electronic or other means, against inadvertent loss or destruction and against tampering; and

• (b) a copy of the records contained in the recording systems can be printed on paper and provided on reasonable notice at the request of the Minister.