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189: Role of WorkSafe
or “WorkSafe oversees compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015”
You could also call this:

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

If you’re not WorkSafe, but you’re a regulator for health and safety, you have some important jobs to do. You need to make sure people follow the health and safety rules in your area. You also write guidelines to help people work safely.

You create tools called ‘safe work instruments’ to help keep workplaces safe. You also tell people how you make sure everyone follows the rules, and how quickly you look into problems.

Your job is to give advice and information about work health and safety. You help people who have to follow the rules, and you also help the public understand them. You support research and training to make work safer.

You collect information about work health and safety and share it with others. You work with other agencies to share important information. You try to build good relationships between the people who have to follow the rules and the people the rules are meant to protect.

You work with others to make new plans to improve work health and safety. You do this by teaming up with other agencies or people who care about safety at work.

You might have other jobs too, if the law says you do. These could be in this Act, in the rules that go with it, or in other laws.

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or “Prime Minister can appoint special agencies for workplace health and safety”
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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Administration

190Functions and powers of regulator other than WorkSafe

  1. Subject to its scope of designation, a regulator other than WorkSafe has the following functions under this Act:

  2. to monitor and enforce compliance with relevant health and safety legislation:
    1. to develop codes of practice:
      1. to develop safe work instruments:
        1. to publish information about—
          1. 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
            1. its performance standards for completing investigations in relation to enforcing compliance with relevant health and safety legislation:
            2. to provide guidance, advice, and information on work health and safety to—
              1. persons who have duties under the relevant health and safety legislation; and
                1. the public:
                2. to promote and support research, education, and training in work health and safety:
                  1. to collect, analyse, and publish statistics and other information relating to work health and safety:
                    1. to engage in, promote, and co-ordinate the sharing of information with other regulatory agencies:
                      1. 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:
                        1. 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:
                          1. to perform any other functions or exercise any other powers conferred on the regulator by or under—
                            1. this Act or regulations; or
                              1. any other enactment.

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