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71: Requirements relating to provisional improvement notices
or “Rules for health and safety reps when giving out notices about possible rule-breaking”
You could also call this:

“Notices can include advice on how to fix workplace safety issues”

When you receive a provisional improvement notice, it might include suggestions on how to fix the problem or prevent it from happening. These suggestions can be about what steps you should take to solve the issue, or they might point out the things or activities that are causing the problem.

The suggestions in the notice can mention an approved set of guidelines. They can also give you different options for how to fix the problem or stop it from happening again.

You don’t have to follow these suggestions exactly, but they’re there to help you understand how to make things better and safer at work.

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Part 3 Worker engagement, participation, and representation
Provisional improvement notices

72Provisional improvement notice may include recommendations to remedy contravention

  1. A provisional improvement notice may include recommendations relating to—

  2. the measures to be taken to remedy the contravention or prevent the likely contravention; or
    1. the things or activities causing the contravention, or likely to cause a contravention, to which the notice relates.

      1. A recommendation included in a provisional improvement notice may—

      2. refer to an approved code of practice:
        1. offer the person to whom it is issued a choice of ways in which to remedy the contravention or prevent the likely contravention.

          1. Subsection (2) does not limit subsection (1).

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