Workplace Safety and Health Act · s 28

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s 28Workplace safety and health officers and co-ordinators

(1)

Every workplace within the prescribed class or description of workplaces shall have a workplace safety and health officer or a workplace safety and health co-ordinator appointed in respect thereof.

(2)

For the purposes of this section, the Minister may prescribe —

(a)

the manner of appointment of a workplace safety and health officer and a workplace safety and health co-ordinator;

(b)

the functions and duties of a workplace safety and health officer and a workplace safety and health co-ordinator;

(c)

the powers of a workplace safety and health officer and a workplace safety and health co-ordinator, being necessary powers for the officer or co-ordinator, as the case may be, to discharge his functions and duties under this Act.