Powers and functions generally limited to the particular work group
69 Powers and functions generally limited to the particular work group
A health and safety representative for a work group (the relevant work group) may exercise powers and perform functions under this Act only in relation to matters that affect, or may affect, workers in the relevant work group.
Subsection (1) does not apply if —
there is a serious risk to health or safety emanating from an immediate or imminent exposure to a hazard that affects or may affect a member of another work group; or
a member of another work group asks for the representative’s assistance,
and the health and safety representative (and any deputy health and safety representative) for that other work group is found, after reasonable inquiry, to be unavailable.
In this section —
another work group means another work group of workers carrying out work for —
a business or undertaking to which the relevant work group relates; or
any other business or undertaking if any of the workers in the work group carry out work at a workplace at which any of the workers in the relevant work group also carry out work.
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