Northern Territory Numbered Acts

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2007 (NO 31 OF 2007) - SECT 43

    (1)     An employer must facilitate the reasonable and effective exercise by a health and safety representative of the representative's functions in the following ways:

    (a)     the employer must allow the representative access to any part of a workplace in which a member of the relevant work group works;

    (b)     the employer must, at the representative's request, make available to the representative information in the employer's possession, or reasonably accessible by the employer, on health and safety issues affecting the members of the relevant work group;

    (c)     if a worker wants the representative to be present at, and to participate in, an interview on a health and safety issue between the worker and the employer, a representative of management, or a workplace safety officer, the employer must permit the representative's presence at, and participation in, the interview;

    (d)     the employer must treat time reasonably spent in carrying out functions as a health and safety representative during ordinary hours of work as time spent at work attracting remuneration at the representative's ordinary rate of pay;

    (e)     the employer must provide any other assistance or facilities required by the regulations.

    (2)     An employer must not provide information about the health of an individual worker under subsection (1)(b) without the worker's consent.

    (3)     An employer who fails to comply with this section is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty:     100 penalty units.