Victorian Current Acts

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2004 - SECT 72

    (1)     An employer must establish a health and safety committee in accordance with this section—

        (a)     within 3 months after being requested to do so by a health and safety representative; or

        (b)     if required by the regulations to do so.

Penalty:     10 penalty units for a natural person;

50 penalty units for a body corporate.

Note

An employer is required to consult employees on the membership of the committee (see Part 4).

    (2)     At least half of the members of a health and safety committee must be employees (and, so far as practicable, health and safety representatives or deputy health and safety representatives) of the employer.

    (3)     The functions of a health and safety committee are—

        (a)     to facilitate co-operation between the employer and employees in instigating, developing and carrying out measures designed to ensure the health and safety at work of the employees; and

        (b)     to formulate, review and disseminate (in other languages if appropriate) to the employees the standards, rules and procedures relating to health and safety that are to be carried out or complied with at the workplace; and

        (c)     such other functions as are prescribed by the regulations or agreed between the employer and the committee.

    (4)     A health and safety committee must meet—

        (a)     at least once every 3 months; and

        (b)     at any other time if at least half of its members require a meeting.

    (5)     Subject to this Act and the regulations, a health and safety committee may determine its own procedures.

Division 8—Resolution of health and safety issues