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Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
70General obligations of person conducting business or
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70 General obligations of person conducting business or
undertaking
(1) The person conducting a business or undertaking must:
(a) consult, so far as is reasonably practicable, on work health
and safety matters with any health and safety representative
for a work group of workers carrying out work for the business
or undertaking; and
(b) confer with a health and safety representative for a work
group, whenever reasonably requested by the representative,
for the purpose of ensuring the health and safety of the
(c) allow any health and safety representative for the work group
to have access to information that the person has relating to:
(i) hazards (including associated risks) at the workplace
affecting workers in the work group; and
(ii) the health and safety of the workers in the work group;
and
(d) with the consent of a worker that the health and safety
representative represents, allow the health and safety
representative to be present at an interview concerning work
health and safety between the worker and:
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(e) with the consent of one or more workers that the health and
safety representative represents, allow the health and safety
representative to be present at an interview concerning work
health and safety between a group of workers, which includes
the workers who gave the consent, and:
(f) provide any resources, facilities and assistance to a health
and safety representative for the work group that are
reasonably necessary or prescribed by the Regulations to
enable the representative to exercise his or her powers or
perform his or her functions under this Act; and
(g) allow a person assisting a health and safety representative for
the work group to have access to the workplace if that is
necessary to enable the assistance to be provided; and
(h) permit a health and safety representative for the work group to
accompany an inspector during an inspection of any part of
the workplace where a worker in the work group works; and
(i) provide any other assistance to the health and safety
representative for the work group that may be required by the
(2) The person conducting a business or undertaking must allow a
health and safety representative to spend such time as is
reasonably necessary to exercise his or her powers and perform his
or her functions under this Act.
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(3) Any time that a health and safety representative spends for the
purposes of exercising his or her powers or performing his or her
functions under this Act 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.