Andrew Murray (WA, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move amendments (6), (8) and (15) on sheet 4847:

(6)    Schedule 1, item 16, page 9 (after line 21), after subsection 24A(2), insert:

          (2A)   An employer must provide a copy of the list of all the designated work groups to an employee or an employee representative on receipt of a written request.

(8)    Schedule 1, item 18, page 10 (after line 11), after subsection 25A(1), insert:

          (1B)   An employer must provide a copy of the list of all health and safety representatives and deputies to an employee or an employee representative on receipt of written request.

(15)  Schedule 1, item 45, page 18 (line 24), at the end of paragraph 74(1)(c), add “and the number of designated work groups, the number of health and safety representatives and the number of health and safety representatives completing training in accordance with section 27”.

These amendments are straightforward. They serve to introduce greater transparency into the new safety process. They improve communications by requiring the employer to provide a copy of the list of designated work groups and health and safety representatives to employee representatives and in annual reporting. One would hope this would be an automatic function of the administrative processes in any organisation, but, in the interests of making sure it happens, this is designed for that effect.