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Work Health and Safety Act 2011
72Obligation to train health and safety representatives
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72 Obligation to train health and safety representatives
(1) The person conducting a business or undertaking must, if requested
by a health and safety representative for a work group for that
business or undertaking, allow the health and safety representative to
attend a course of training in work health and safety that is—
(b) a course that the health and safety representative is entitled
under the regulation to attend; and
(c) chosen by the health and safety representative.
(2) The person conducting the business or undertaking must—
request is made, allow the health and safety representative time
off work to attend the course of training; and
with the health and safety representative’s attendance at the
course of training.
(3) If—
(a) a health and safety representative represents a work group of the
workers of more than 1 business or undertaking; and
(b) the person conducting any of those businesses or undertakings
has complied with this section in relation to the representative,
each of the persons conducting those businesses or undertakings is to
be taken to have complied with this section in relation to the
(4) Any time that a health and safety representative is given off work to
attend the course of training must be with the pay that he or she would
otherwise be entitled to receive for performing his or her normal
duties during that period.
(5) If agreement cannot be reached between the person conducting the
business or undertaking and the health and safety representative
within the time required by subsection (2) about a matter mentioned
in subsection (2), either party may ask the regulator to appoint an
inspector to decide the matter.
(7) A person conducting a business or undertaking must allow a health
and safety representative to attend a course decided by the inspector
and pay the costs decided by the inspector under subsection (6).
(8) This section does not apply to a workplace to which section 72A
applies.