Northern Territory Numbered Acts

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2007 (NO 31 OF 2007) - SECT 77

    (1)     If work involves a serious and immediate risk to a worker's health or safety:

    (a)     the worker may discontinue work until the risk has been eliminated or mitigated; or

    (b)     a workplace safety officer may issue a stop work notice to the worker.

    (2)     A stop work notice is a notice to a worker requiring the worker to stop work in a situation in which the worker is exposed to a serious and immediate risk to the worker's health or safety.

    (3)     If a worker stops work, or is required to stop work, under this section, the employer may assign the worker to some other work not involving a serious risk.

    (4)     A worker who fails to comply with a stop work notice is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty:     100 penalty units.

    (5)     The Authority may, on application by an employer or a worker, determine a dispute between the employer and the worker about whether a serious and immediate risk exists to the worker's health or safety.