Queensland Serious Electrical Incident or Dangerous Electrical Event Notification

Completed notifications and internal records of a serious electrical incident or dangerous electrical event under the Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld). Serious electrical incident (s 11) covers a person killed by electricity or receiving a shock or injury treated by or under a doctor, or at high voltage. Dangerous electrical event (s 12) covers unsafe proximity to HV equipment, significant property damage caused by electricity, and unlicensed or unsafe electrical work. A business or undertaking must notify the regulator immediately (Electrical Safety Regulation 2013 s 265, with written notice within 48 hours if required and records kept 5 years). A distribution entity must give written notice in the approved form received within 24 hours (s 266). Section numbers are taken from the 27 Sep 2024 version of the Regulation; the current version could not be retrieved. Records name the injured or involved person, date, time and location, the equipment and voltage, the injury and treatment, and the notification to the Electrical Safety Office. The Act and Regulation, ESO safety alerts and prosecution summaries, toolbox talks and blank forms are decoys.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: serious electrical incident and dangerous electrical event are defined terms in ss 11-12 of the Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld) and appear in almost every ESO publication, so enforcement depends on populated incident fields and injury or notification detail. The approved form's field headings could not be verified (the PDF download was blocked), so field labels are common incident-report labels, not the form's exact wording. Electrical licence numbers have no published format and are not used. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic.
Jurisdictions: au, au-qld
Regulations: Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld), Electrical Safety Regulation 2013 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: pii, health, security, infrastructure
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:serious\s+electrical\s+incidents?|dangerous\s+electrical\s+events?|Electrical\s+Safety\s+Office|electrical\s+incident\s+(?:notification|report))\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

electric shock, high voltage, distribution entity, incident record, regulator, approved form, person conducting a business or undertaking

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Serious electrical incident - notification record Date of incident: 18/09/2026 at 10:40 Location of incident: Pole 44718, Gowrie Road, Kellyvale Injured person: Morgan Traske (line worker) Equipment involved: 11 kV overhead conductor, recloser R-2291 Reported to the Electrical Safety Office by phone at 11:05 on 18/09/2026. — Populated notification with date, location, injured person, equipment and ESO phone notification time - intended 85
Dangerous electrical event report Time of event: 14:15 Site: Bay 3 switchroom, Mount Orrin Power Station Worker: Alex Fennimore came within the exclusion zone of energised 33 kV busbar. ESO reference number: ESO-2026-118842 — Populated event with time, site, worker and ESO reference - intended 85
Serious electrical incident: the apprentice received an electric shock from a damaged extension lead and was treated by a doctor at Ipswich Hospital the same afternoon. — Injury and treatment narrative - intended 75
Electrical incident report Location of incident: 12 Hartigan Street, Toowong, meter box No injuries; consumer reported tingles from a kitchen tap. — One populated incident location field - intended 75

Should not match

A serious electrical incident is an incident involving electrical equipment if, in the incident, a person is killed by electricity; or a person receives a shock or injury from electricity, and is treated for the shock or injury by or under the supervision of a doctor. — Electrical Safety Act s 11 definition text - 65 only
A person who conducts a business or undertaking must ensure that the regulator is notified immediately after becoming aware that a serious electrical incident or dangerous electrical event has occurred. Maximum penalty - 100 penalty units. — Electrical Safety Regulation s 265 text (legislation exclusion) - 65 only
Electrical incident notification form Date of incident: __________ Location of incident: __________ Injured person: __________ Equipment involved: __________ — Blank notification form - must not reach 75
Safety alert: the Electrical Safety Office is investigating a serious electrical incident in which a worker received an electric shock and was taken to hospital after contacting an overhead line. — ESO safety alert (publication exclusion) - must not reach 75
Toolbox talk: what counts as a dangerous electrical event, and why you must notify the Electrical Safety Office straight away. — Toolbox talk / training - 65 only

Known false positives

The Electrical Safety Act and Regulation and ESO guidance pages quoting the definitions and notification duties. Mitigation: No populated incident fields, and the legislation exclusion group (Maximum penalty, penalty units, you must notify) applies at enforce tiers.
ESO safety alerts, prosecution summaries and news reporting of incidents. Mitigation: These may carry an injury narrative, so enforce tiers exclude safety alert, prosecution, fined and pleaded guilty text.
Blank notification forms and incident report templates. Mitigation: Underscore, bracket and n/a/tbc values are rejected by the field guard.
General WHS incident reports that mention electrical safety without the defined terms. Mitigation: Not detected unless a primary term is present. Detection of genuine ESO-related incident records is intended.