Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 176

176 Inspector’s power to seize dangerous workplaces and things

(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.