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69: Provisional improvement notices
or “Health and safety reps can issue notices to address workplace safety concerns”
You could also call this:

“Training needed before health and safety reps can issue improvement notices”

You need to know about the training requirements for health and safety representatives when it comes to issuing a provisional improvement notice. A health and safety representative can only issue this notice if they have done one of two things. They must have finished the training that is set out in the rules, or they must have already done this training when they were a health and safety representative for a different work group. This means that before a representative can give out a provisional improvement notice, they need to make sure they have the right training.

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or “Rules for health and safety reps when giving out notices about possible rule-breaking”
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Part 3 Worker engagement, participation, and representation
Provisional improvement notices

70Training requirements relating to issue of provisional improvement notice

  1. A health and safety representative must not issue a provisional improvement notice unless the representative has—

  2. completed training prescribed by or under regulations; or
    1. previously completed that training when acting as a health and safety representative for another work group.

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