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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2020 - SECT 84

84 .         Right of worker to cease unsafe work

        (1)         A worker may cease, or refuse to carry out, work if the worker has a reasonable concern that to carry out the work would expose —

            (a)         the worker to a serious risk to their health or safety emanating from an immediate or imminent exposure to a hazard; or

            (b)         any other person to a serious risk to their health or safety emanating from an immediate or imminent exposure to a hazard.

        (2)         A police officer must not cease, or refuse to carry out, work under this section if the ceasing, or refusal to carry out, work would affect adversely, or could reasonably be expected to affect adversely, a covert operation or a dangerous operation.



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