Workplace Safety and Health Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Safety and Health Management Arrangements
30. Workplace safety and health auditors
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Every workplace within the prescribed class or description of workplaces shall have a workplace safety and health auditor appointed in respect thereof.
The functions of a workplace safety and health auditor appointed in respect of a workplace shall be to audit, in such manner as the
workplace safety and health auditor
“workplace safety and health auditor” means a workplace safety and health auditor appointed under section 30;
Authority may determine, with a view to ensuring the safety, health and welfare of persons at work in the workplace —
the safety and health management system of the workplace;
any risk assessment relating to the workplace or the work carried out in that workplace;
any work process at the workplace; and
the workplace.
A workplace safety and health auditor shall have such powers as may be prescribed, being necessary powers for him to discharge his functions and duties under this Act.
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In this section, “risk assessment” means the process of evaluating the probability and consequences of injury or illness arising from exposure to an identified hazard, and determining the appropriate measures for risk control.
Terms defined in s 4
at work
Defined · s 4“at work” means — (a) in relation to an employee, all times when the employee is performing work in connection with any trade, business, profession or undertaking carried on by his employer, wherever that work is carried out; (b) in relation to a self-employed person, all times when that person is performing work as a self-employed person, wherever the work is carried out; and (c) in any other case, all times when the person is performing work at the direction of the person who engaged him, wherever the work is carried out;
class or description
Defined · s 4“class or description”, in relation to workplaces, includes a group of workplaces described by reference to locality;
workplace safety and health auditor
Defined · s 4“workplace safety and health auditor” means a workplace safety and health auditor appointed under section 30;
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