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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Enforcement and other matters - Sentencing for offences

155: Work health and safety project orders

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“Courts can order safety projects to improve workplace health”

A court can tell someone who has broken the law to do a special project. This project is meant to make work health and safety better for everyone. The court will say when the project needs to be finished.

The court can also set rules for how the project should be done. You have to follow these rules when you’re working on the project.

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Part 4 Enforcement and other matters
Sentencing for offences

155Work health and safety project orders

  1. A court may make an order requiring an offender to undertake a specified project for the general improvement of work health and safety within the period specified in the order.

  2. The order may specify conditions that must be complied with in undertaking the specified project.

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