Work Health and Safety Act 2012

An inspector who enters a workplace under section 163 may do all or any of the following:inspect, examine and make inquiries at the workplace; inspect and examine any thing (including a document) at the workplace; bring to the workplace and use any equipment or materials that may be required; take measurements, conduct tests and make sketches or recordings (including photographs, films, audio, video, digital or other recordings); take and remove for analysis a sample of any substance or thing without paying for it; require a person at the workplace to give the inspector reasonable help to exercise the inspector's powers under paragraphs (a) to (e); exercise any compliance power or other power that is reasonably necessary to be exercised by the inspector for the purposes of this Act.

A person required to give reasonable help under subsection (1)(f) must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply with the requirement. In the case of – an individual, a fine not exceeding $10 000; or a body corporate, a fine not exceeding $50 000.

Subsection (2) places an evidential burden on the accused to show a reasonable excuse.