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Work Health and Safety Act 2011
79Duties of person conducting business or undertaking
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79 Duties of person conducting business or undertaking
(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking must allow each
member of the health and safety committee to spend the time that is
reasonably necessary to attend meetings of the committee or to carry
out functions as a member of the committee.
(2) Any time that a member of a health and safety committee spends for
the purposes set out in subsection (1) must be with such pay as he or
she would otherwise be entitled to receive for performing his or her
normal duties during that period.
(3) A person conducting a business or undertaking must allow the health
and safety committee for a workplace to have access to information
that the person has relating to—
(a) hazards (including associated risks) at the workplace; and
(b) the health and safety of the workers at the workplace.
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(4) Despite subsection (3), a person conducting a business or undertaking
must not allow the health and safety committee to have access to any
personal or medical information concerning a worker without the
worker’s consent unless the information is in a form that—