Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) Where an employee has reasonable grounds to believe that, as a result of work being carried on at a workplace, there is a risk of imminent and serious injury to, or imminent and serious harm to the health of, any person, an employee may refuse to work if it is not within the employee's ability to rectify the cause of the risk.
(2) An employee who refuses to work as mentioned in subsection (1) must immediately notify his or her employer or the person in charge of his or her workplace and, if there is an employees' safety representative for the workplace concerned, the employees' safety representative of the risk of imminent and serious injury or imminent and serious harm to health.
Penalty:
Fine not exceeding 20 penalty units.
(3) An employee who refuses to work as mentioned in subsection (1) may be given reasonable alternative work to perform until the cause of the risk has been rectified and the employee resumes his or her usual work.
(4) If an employee is given reasonable alternative work to perform, the employee is required to perform that work under the terms and conditions of the employee's employment.