Part 5
Miscellaneous provisions
Administration
190Functions and powers of regulator other than WorkSafe
Subject to its scope of designation, a regulator other than WorkSafe has the following functions under this Act:
- to monitor and enforce compliance with relevant health and safety legislation:
- to develop codes of practice:
- to develop safe work instruments:
- to publish information about—
- its approach to enforcing compliance with relevant health and safety legislation (including where a provision of the relevant health and safety legislation overlaps with another enactment); and
- its performance standards for completing investigations in relation to enforcing compliance with relevant health and safety legislation:
- its approach to enforcing compliance with relevant health and safety legislation (including where a provision of the relevant health and safety legislation overlaps with another enactment); and
- to provide guidance, advice, and information on work health and safety to—
- persons who have duties under the relevant health and safety legislation; and
- the public:
- persons who have duties under the relevant health and safety legislation; and
- to promote and support research, education, and training in work health and safety:
- to collect, analyse, and publish statistics and other information relating to work health and safety:
- to engage in, promote, and co-ordinate the sharing of information with other regulatory agencies:
- to foster a co-operative and consultative relationship between persons who have duties under the relevant health and safety legislation and the persons to whom they owe duties and their representatives in relation to work health and safety:
- to promote and co-ordinate the implementation of work health and safety initiatives by establishing partnerships or collaborating with other agencies or interested persons in a coherent, efficient, and effective way:
- to perform any other functions or exercise any other powers conferred on the regulator by or under—
- this Act or regulations; or
- any other enactment.
- this Act or regulations; or