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97: General provisions
or “General rules for legal actions related to health and safety at work”
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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Next up: 99: Regulator may appoint inspector to assist parties in resolving issue

or “The regulator can send an inspector to help solve workplace health and safety issues”
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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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