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Work Health and Safety Act 2011
84Right of worker to cease unsafe work
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84 Right of worker to cease unsafe work A worker may cease, or refuse to carry out, work if the worker has a reasonable concern that to carry out the work would expose the worker to a serious risk to the worker’s health or safety, emanating from an immediate or imminent exposure to a hazard.
Right to cease or direct cessation of unsafe work Division 5.6