Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) If 10 or more employees are employed at any workplace they may elect from time to time one of their number to be an employees' safety representative for that workplace for the purposes of this Act.
(2) For the purposes of ensuring the health and safety of employees at a workplace, the employer must confer with the employees' safety representative for that workplace whenever reasonably requested to do so by that representative.
Penalty:
In the case of –(a) a body corporate, a fine not exceeding 200 penalty units; and
(b) a natural person, a fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.
(3) Except as may be prescribed, the terms of employment of an employee's safety representative for the purposes of this section remain subject to the control of the employer by whom the employee's safety representative is employed.
(4) Subject to subsection (5), a person who is an employees' safety representative must not disclose information obtained in the course of performing the functions of an employees' safety representative if the information relates to –
(a) commercial or trading operations; or
(b) the physical or mental condition, or the personal circumstances or affairs, of an employee or other person at the workplace for which the employees' safety representative is elected.
Penalty:
Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(5) The disclosure of the information referred to in subsection (4) is permitted if it is –
(a) a disclosure made in the course of the performance of the person's functions as an employees' safety representative; or
(b) a disclosure of statistical information; or
(c) a disclosure required by law; or
(d) a disclosure made with the written consent of the person to whom the information relates; or
(e) a disclosure authorised by regulations made under this Act.