Health and safety committees
75 Health and safety committees
The person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must establish a health and safety committee for the business or undertaking or part of the business or undertaking:
within 2 months after being requested to do so by:
a health and safety representative for a work group of workers carrying out work at that workplace; or
5 or more workers at that workplace; or
if required by the regulations to do so, within the time prescribed by the regulations.
Penalty: The tier F monetary penalty.
Section 4K of the Crimes Act 1914 does not apply in relation to the offence in subsection (1).
A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace may establish a health and safety committee for the workplace or part of the workplace on the person’s own initiative.
If a health and safety committee is not required to be established, other consultation procedures can be established for a workplace—see Division 2 of this Part.
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