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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 75

Health and safety committees

75 Health and safety committees

(1) The person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must establish a health and safety committee for the business or undertaking or part of the business or undertaking--
(a) within 2 months after being requested to do so by--
(i) a health and safety representative for a work group of workers carrying out work at that workplace, or
(ii) 5 or more workers at that workplace, or
(b) if required by the regulations to do so, within the time prescribed by the regulations.
: Maximum penalty--
(a) in the case of an individual--60 penalty units, or
(b) in the case of a body corporate--290 penalty units.
(2) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace may establish a health and safety committee for the workplace or part of the workplace on the person's own initiative.
Note : If a health and safety committee is not required to be established, other consultation procedures can be established for a workplace--see Division 2 of this Part.



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