Western Australian Current Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2020 - SECT 165

165 .         General powers on entry under section 163

        (1)         An inspector who enters a workplace under section 163 may do all or any of the following —

            (a)         inspect, examine and make inquiries at the workplace;

            (b)         inspect and examine anything (including a document) at the workplace;

            (c)         bring to the workplace and use any equipment or materials that may be required;

            (d)         take measurements, conduct tests and make sketches or recordings (including photographs, films, audio, video, digital or other recordings);

            (e)         take and remove for analysis, testing or examination a sample of any substance or thing without paying for it;

            (f)         require a person at the workplace to give the inspector reasonable help to exercise the inspector’s powers under paragraphs (a) to (e);

            (g)         exercise any compliance power or other power that is reasonably necessary to be exercised by the inspector for the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         A person required to give reasonable help under subsection (1)(f) must not refuse or fail to comply with the requirement.

        Penalty for this subsection:

            (a)         for an individual, a fine of $12 500;

            (b)         for a body corporate, a fine of $55 000.