Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Miscellaneous provisions - Administration

189: Role of WorkSafe

You could also call this:

“WorkSafe oversees compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015”

WorkSafe is in charge of making sure the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 is followed. This means WorkSafe is the regulator for this Act. However, sometimes other people or groups might be put in charge instead of WorkSafe. If this happens, it’s explained in section 191 of the Act. When someone else is put in charge, WorkSafe isn’t the regulator for that specific part.

This text is automatically generated. It might be out of date or be missing some parts. Find out more about how we do this.

View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM5977179.

Topics:
Work and jobs > Workplace safety
Government and voting > Government departments

Previous

188: Offence to impersonate health and safety medical practitioner, or

“It's illegal to pretend you're a health and safety medical practitioner”


Next

190: Functions and powers of regulator other than WorkSafe, or

“Duties and responsibilities of non-WorkSafe health and safety regulators”

Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Administration

189Role of WorkSafe

  1. Except to the extent that a designation under section 191 is in force, WorkSafe is the regulator for the purposes of this Act.