Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 176

  (1)   This section applies if an inspector who enters a workplace under this Part reasonably believes that:

  (a)   the workplace or part of the workplace; or

  (b)   plant at the workplace; or

  (c)   a substance at the workplace or part of the workplace; or

  (d)   a structure at a workplace;

is defective or hazardous to a degree likely to cause serious injury or illness or a dangerous incident to occur.

  (2)   The inspector may seize the workplace or part, the plant, the substance or the structure.