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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 No. 18 - SECT 71

71 Exceptions from obligations under s 70(1)

(1) This section applies despite section 70(1).

(2) The person conducting a business or undertaking must not allow a health and safety representative to have access to any personal or medical information concerning a worker without the worker's consent unless the information is in a form that—

(a) does not identify the worker; and
(b) could not reasonably be expected to lead to the identification of the worker.

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(3) The person conducting a business or undertaking is not required to give financial assistance to a health and safety representative for the purpose of the assistance mentioned in section 70(1)(f).

(4) The person conducting a business or undertaking is not required to allow a person assisting a health and safety representative for a work group to have access to the workplace—

(a) if the assistant has had his or her WHS entry permit revoked; or
(b) during any period that the assistant's WHS entry permit is suspended or the assistant is disqualified from holding a WHS entry permit.

(5) The person conducting a business or undertaking may refuse on reasonable grounds to grant access to the workplace to a person assisting a health and safety representative for a work group.

(6) If access is refused to a person assisting a health and safety representative under subsection (5), the health and safety representative may ask the regulator to appoint an inspector to assist in resolving the matter.



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