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84: Health and safety representative may direct unsafe work to cease
or “Safety rep can stop dangerous work to prevent serious harm”
You could also call this:

“Training needed before a health and safety rep can stop work”

You need to know about the training a health and safety representative must have before they can tell workers to stop working. A health and safety representative can’t tell workers to stop work unless they have done some special training. This training is set out in the rules. The representative must have either finished this training for their current job, or they must have done it before when they were a health and safety representative for a different group of workers. This rule is linked to section 84, which talks about when a health and safety representative can tell workers to stop work.

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Part 3 Worker engagement, participation, and representation
Right to cease or direct cessation of unsafe work

85Training requirements relating to giving direction to cease work

  1. A health and safety representative must not give a direction under section 84 to cease work unless the representative has—

  2. completed training prescribed by or under regulations; or
    1. previously completed that training when acting as a health and safety representative for another work group.

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