Northern Territory Numbered Acts

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2007 (NO 31 OF 2007) - SECT 46

The functions of a health and safety committee are as follows:

    (a)     to facilitate consultation and cooperation between the employer and workers in initiating, developing and implementing measures designed to ensure the health and safety of the workers at the workplace;

    (b)     to keep itself informed about standards of health and safety generally recommended for, or prevailing at, workplaces of a comparable nature, and to review and make recommendations to the employer on rules and procedures at the workplace affecting the health and safety of the workers;

    (c)     to recommend to the employer the establishment, maintenance and monitoring of programs, measures and procedures at the workplace relating to the health and safety of the workers;

    (d)     to keep, in an accessible place and form, information about the hazards to workers that exist or may arise at the workplace;

    (e)     to consider, and make recommendations about, changes to be made at the workplace that may affect the health and safety of the workers;

    (f)     to consider, and make recommendations about, training and education in, and promotion of, health and safety at the workplace;

    (g)     to consider, and make recommendations about, changes to be made at the workplace following an accident or reportable incident;

    (h)     to perform other functions assigned to the committee under the regulations or (with the committee's consent) by the employer.