Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Worker engagement, participation, and representation - Issue resolution

98: Resolution of work health and safety issues

You could also call this:

“Working together to solve workplace health and safety problems”

If you have a problem about health and safety at your workplace, you and everyone involved (including anyone speaking for you) need to try hard to fix it. You should aim to solve the problem quickly and properly. It’s important that you work together to find a solution that really works.

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Part 3 Worker engagement, participation, and representation
Issue resolution

98Resolution of work health and safety issues

  1. If an issue about work health and safety arises at a workplace, the parties to the issue (including any representative of the parties) must make reasonable efforts to achieve a timely, final, and effective resolution of the issue.

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