Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH ACT - SECT 44C

The functions of a health and safety committee are -

(a) to facilitate consultation and co-operation between the employer and workers working at the workplace in initiating, developing and implementing measures designed to ensure the health and safety of the workers at the workplace;

(b) to keep itself informed about standards relating to health and safety generally recommended or prevailing in workplaces of a comparable nature, and to review and make recommendations to the employer on rules and procedures at the workplace relating to the health and safety of the workers;

(c) to recommend to the employer the establishment, maintenance and monitoring of programs, measures and procedures at the workplace relating to the health and safety of the workers;

(d) to keep, in an accessible place and form, such information as is provided under this Act and by the employer regarding the hazards to workers that arise or may arise at the workplace;

(e) to consider and make recommendations relating to changes to be made at the workplace that may reasonably be expected to affect the health and safety of the workers;

(f) to consider and make recommendations relating to training and education in, and promotion of, health and safety at the workplace;

(g) to consider, and make recommendations relating to changes to be made at the workplace following an accident or dangerous occurrence; and

(h) to perform such other functions as may be prescribed, or given to the committee, with its consent, by an employer.