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62: Election of health and safety representatives
or “How workers can request and employers must arrange health and safety representative elections”
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“Rules for choosing health and safety representatives through elections”

When you want to choose health and safety representatives, you need to have an election. This election can happen because a worker asked for it or because the person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) decided to have one. No matter why you’re having the election, you must follow the rules that have been set out for how to do it properly. These rules are called “prescribed requirements”. They tell you exactly what you need to do to make sure the election is done correctly. You can find more information about when to have an election in section 62 of this law.

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Part 3 Worker engagement, participation, and representation
Health and safety representatives and health and safety committees: Election of health and safety representatives

63Requirements for conducting elections

  1. An election for 1 or more health and safety representatives (whether following the request of a worker or on the initiative of the PCBU under section 62) must comply with any prescribed requirements.

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