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75: Cancellation of provisional improvement notice
or “How health and safety reps can cancel an improvement notice they issued”
You could also call this:

“Display the improvement notice where workers can see it”

If you get a provisional improvement notice, you need to show it where people can see it. You should put a copy of the notice in an easy-to-spot place at or near the part of the workplace that the notice is about. You should do this as soon as you can.

You’re not allowed to take down, break, damage, or scribble on the notice while it’s still active. This is against the law.

If you don’t follow these rules, you’re breaking the law. If you’re found guilty, you could be fined. If you’re an individual, you might have to pay up to $5,000. If you’re a company or organisation, you might have to pay up to $25,000.

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

76Display of provisional improvement notice

  1. A person to whom a provisional improvement notice is issued must, as soon as practicable, display a copy of the notice in a prominent place at or near the workplace, or part of the workplace, at which work is being carried out that is affected by the notice.

  2. A person must not intentionally remove, destroy, damage, or deface a notice displayed under subsection (1) during the period that the notice is in force.

  3. A person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence and is liable on conviction,—

  4. for an individual, to a fine not exceeding $5,000:
    1. for any other person, to a fine not exceeding $25,000.

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