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Work Health and Safety Act 2011
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69 Powers and functions generally limited to the particular
work group
(1) A health and safety representative for a work group may exercise
powers and perform functions under this Act only in relation to
matters that affect, or may affect, workers in that group.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if—
(a) there is a serious risk to health or safety emanating from an
immediate or imminent exposure to a hazard that affects or may
affect a member of another work group; or
(b) a member of another work group asks for the representative’s
assistance,
and the health and safety representative (and any deputy health and
safety representative) for that other work group is found, after
reasonable inquiry, to be unavailable.
another work group means another work group of workers carrying
out work for a business or undertaking to which the work group that
the health and safety representative represents relates.
Subdivision 5.3.6 Obligations of person conducting
business or undertaking to health and
safety representatives