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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Worker engagement, participation, and representation - Issue resolution

99: Regulator may appoint inspector to assist parties in resolving issue

You could also call this:

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

If you and others have tried to solve a work health and safety problem but haven’t been able to, there’s something you can do. You or someone else involved can ask for help from the regulator. The regulator is like a boss who makes sure everyone follows the rules.

If you ask, the regulator might send a special helper called an inspector. This inspector will try to help you and the other people find a solution to your problem.

Sometimes, if the inspector has tried to help but you still can’t agree, they might make the decision for you. But they can only do this for certain types of problems that are listed in the rules.

Remember, you can only ask for an inspector’s help if you’ve already tried hard to fix the problem yourselves, as mentioned in section 98.

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Part 3 Worker engagement, participation, and representation
Issue resolution

99Regulator may appoint inspector to assist parties in resolving issue

  1. This section applies if a work health and safety issue has not been resolved after reasonable efforts have been made under section 98 to achieve a resolution of the issue.

  2. A party to the issue may ask the regulator to appoint an inspector to assist the parties in resolving the issue.

  3. If the regulator agrees to appoint an inspector, the inspector may, after providing assistance to the parties in accordance with subsection (2), decide the issue if it is of a type specified in regulations.

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