South Australian Current Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 709

709—Training for health and safety representatives (regulation 21)

        (1)         Subject to subregulation (2), a person who has completed a course of training approved for the purposes of section 31A of the repealed Act will be taken to have completed initial training for the purposes of sections 85(6) and 90(4) of the Act.

        (2)         Subregulation (1) will cease to apply on the first anniversary of the relevant day (and so a person within the ambit of that subregulation must attend a day's bridging training of a kind approved by the regulator for the purposes of this regulation before the first anniversary of the relevant day in order to exercise the powers under sections 85 and 90 after that anniversary).

        (3)         In the case of a person who, on the relevant day, is in his or her second or third year of a term of office as a health and safety representative, the day's bridging training envisaged by subregulation (2) will constitute an entitlement to a day's training that is additional to the days that apply as prescribed days under section 72 of the Act.