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Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
79Duties of person conducting business or undertaking
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79 Duties of person conducting business or undertaking
(1) The 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 the pay that
he or she would otherwise be entitled to receive for performing his
or her normal duties during that period.
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(3) The 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.
Note for subsection (3)
(4) Despite subsection (3), the 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: