Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) If —
(a) an
employer —
(i)
is under an obligation by operation of
section 38(1); or
(ii)
wishes to take action for the purposes of
section 39B,
in respect of more
than one workplace of the employer; and
(b) a
safety and health committee has not been established for one or more of those
workplaces,
the parties concerned
may agree in writing that one safety and health committee is to be established
to exercise functions in relation to each of the workplaces to which
paragraph (b) applies.
(2) For the purposes
of subsection (1) the parties concerned are —
(a) the
employer;
(b) any
safety and health representative for a workplace to which
subsection (1)(b) applies; and
(c) the
employees appointed under section 37 in respect of that workplace.
(3) An agreement under
subsection (1) may provide —
(a) for
the establishment of a safety and health committee to exercise functions in
relation to more than one workplace; and
(b) for
that committee to have subcommittees for each workplace —
(i)
to advise the committee on the exercise of its functions
in relation to that workplace; and
(ii)
to exercise some or all of those functions as the
delegate of the committee in accordance with the terms of a delegation to it.
(4) The composition of
any subcommittee referred to in subsection (3) is to be determined by the
parties referred to in subsection (2).
[Section 39E inserted by No. 51 of 2004
s. 50.]