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101: Power to issue improvement notices
or “Inspectors can require improvements to workplace safety”
You could also call this:

“What improvement notices say and how they help you fix safety issues”

If an inspector thinks you’re breaking a rule in the Health and Safety at Work Act or might break one soon, they can give you an improvement notice. This notice will tell you what rule they think you’re breaking or might break. It will explain briefly how you’re breaking the rule or might break it. The notice will give you a fair amount of time to fix the problem or change what you’re doing that might cause a problem.

The improvement notice might also give you some ideas on how to fix the problem or stop it from happening. These ideas could be about what you can do differently or what things you should change to follow the rules.

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Next up: 103: Compliance with improvement notice

or “You must follow an improvement notice by the given deadline”
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Part 4 Enforcement and other matters
Enforcement measures: Improvement notices

102Content of improvement notices

  1. An improvement notice must state—

  2. that the inspector believes the person—
    1. is contravening a provision of this Act or regulations; or
      1. is likely to contravene this Act or regulations; and
      2. the provision the inspector believes is being, or is likely to be, contravened; and
        1. briefly, how the provision is being, or is likely to be, contravened; and
          1. a reasonable period within which the person is required to remedy—
            1. the contravention or likely contravention; or
              1. the things or activities causing the contravention or likely to cause a contravention.

              2. An improvement notice may include recommendations concerning—

              3. the measures that could be taken to remedy the contravention, or prevent the likely contravention, to which the notice relates:
                1. the things or activities causing the contravention, or likely to cause a contravention, to which the notice relates.

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