79AObligation to train health and safety committee

79A Obligation to train health and safety committee members—major construction project (2) The principal contractor for the major construction project must ensure the members of the health and safety committee for the major construction project attend a course of training in work health and safety that is— (b) a course that the members are entitled under the regulation to attend; and (c) subject to subsection (6), chosen by the health and safety committee, in consultation with the principal contractor. (3) The principal contractor for the major construction project must— day the health and safety committee is constituted, ensure members of the health and safety committee have time off work to attend the course of training; and with each member’s attendance at the course of training.

(4) Any time that a member of a health and safety committee 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 principal contractor for the major construction project and the health and safety committee within the time required by subsection (3) as to the matters set out in subsections (2) (c) and (3), either party may ask the regulator to appoint an inspector to decide the matter. (7) The principal contractor for the major construction project must ensure the members of the health and safety committee attend a course decided by the inspector and pay the costs decided by the inspector under subsection (6). (8) Subsection (7) does not apply if the regulator has, under section 50B (Exemption from certain requirements under this part), exempted the principal contractor from complying with this section.