Part 4: The Health Services Safety Investigations Body Protection of Material Held by the HSSIB Section 122: Prohibition on disclosure of HSSIB material
This section prevents the HSSIB, or any individual connected with the HSSIB from disclosing "protected material" to any person. In this context, protected material includes any information, document, equipment or other item which is held by the HSSIB (or a connected individual) for the purposes of the HSSIB’s investigation function, relates to a qualifying incident (regardless of whether it is being investigated) and has not already been lawfully made available to the public.
	Section 122(2) sets out that any information, documents, equipment or other item which is held by the HSSIB (or a connected individual) for the purposes of the HSSIB’s investigation function, relates to a qualifying incident (whether or not investigated by the HSSIB), and which has not been lawfully been made available to the public, is to be regarded as "protected material". The aim is to create a "safe space" within which participants can provide information for the purposes of an investigation in confidence and therefore feel able to speak openly and candidly with the HSSIB.
	The safe space applies both to protected material obtained before the HSSIB decided whether to investigate as well as to material held in connection with an investigation already underway or completed.
	Section 122(3) to (5) defines who the main prohibition on disclosure applies to. This includes past and present members of the HSSIB, including committee and sub-committee members, investigators and administrators or other workers of the HSSIB including apprentices and agency workers.