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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Enforcement and other matters - Inspectors and health and safety medical practitioners - Inspectors

176: Duty to assist inspectors

You could also call this:

“You must help health and safety inspectors do their job”

You have a duty to help inspectors do their job under health and safety laws. This means you must give them all the help they need to enter places, look around, ask questions, and use their powers. These powers come from health and safety laws.

If you don’t help the inspectors when you should, you’re breaking the law. This is called an offence. If you’re found guilty, you might have to pay a fine. If you’re an individual person, the fine could be up to $10,000. If you’re not an individual (like if you’re a company), the fine could be up to $50,000.

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Part 4 Enforcement and other matters
Inspectors and health and safety medical practitioners: Inspectors

176Duty to assist inspectors

  1. Any person on whom a duty is imposed by relevant health and safety legislation must give all reasonable assistance to enable an inspector to enter, inspect, examine, inquire, or exercise any other power under relevant health and safety legislation.

  2. A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction,—

  3. for an individual, to a fine not exceeding $10,000:
    1. for any other person, to a fine not exceeding $50,000.

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