WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 72 Obligation to train health and safety representatives

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 72

72 Obligation to train health and safety representatives

(1) The person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, a health and safety representative for a work group for that business or undertaking has completed the training prescribed by regulation.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(2) The person conducting a business or undertaking must—

(a) allow a health and safety representative time off work to attend the training; and

(b) pay the training fees and any other reasonable costs associated with the health and safety representative’s attendance at the training.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(3) If—

(a) a health and safety representative represents a work group of the workers of more than 1 business or undertaking; and

(b) the person conducting any of those businesses or undertakings has complied with this section in relation to the representative;

each of the persons conducting those businesses or undertakings is to be taken to have complied with this section in relation to the representative.

(4) Any time that a health and safety representative is given off work to attend the course of training must be with the pay that he or she would otherwise be entitled to receive for performing his or her normal duties during that period.