Western Australian Consolidated Acts

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1984 - SECT 38

38 .         Obligation of employer to establish a safety and health committee

        (1)         An employer must, in accordance with the prescribed requirements, establish a safety and health committee for a workplace within the allowed period after — 

            (a)         the coming into operation of a regulation requiring the employer to do so;

            (b)         service on the employer of a notice by the Commissioner requiring the employer to do so; or

            (c)         being requested under section 39(1) to do so,

                unless, in the case mentioned in paragraph (c), the Commissioner has decided under section 39A that a safety and health committee is not required to be established for the workplace concerned.

        (2)         If an employer contravenes subsection (1), the employer commits an offence.

        [Section 38 inserted by No. 51 of 2004 s. 50.]