New South Wales Consolidated Acts

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2000 - SECT 69

69 Power of employees’ representative to accompany inspector

(1) An inspector who is proposing to undertake an inspection of a place of work with respect to a matter that may affect the health, safety or welfare of employees at the place of work:

(a) must, to the extent that it is practicable, consult a representative of the employees or an industrial organisation of employees whose members are employed at the place of work, and

(b) must, if requested to do so by the representative, take the representative on any such inspection.

(2) In the case of a coal workplace, the representative of the employees referred to in this section should, to the extent practicable, be a site check inspector elected under the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 2002 for that workplace.