Knowledge Server

Document Chunk

This text chunk contains following information extracted through processing and enrichment.

Section : 71 Exceptions from obligations under section 70(1)
Domain : Human Resource Management
Classification : Not Identified

Text Content


  • (1) This section applies despite section 70(1).
  • (2) The person conducting a business or undertaking must not allow a health and safety representative to have access to any personal or medical information concerning a worker without the worker's consent unless the information is in a form that:
  1. (a) does not identify the worker; and
  2. (b) could not reasonably be expected to lead to the identification of the worker.
  • (3) The person conducting a business or undertaking is not required to give financial assistance to a health and safety representative for the purpose of the assistance referred to in section 70(1)(g).
  • (4) The person conducting a business or undertaking is not required to allow a person assisting a health and safety representative for a work group to have access to the workplace:
  1. (a) if the assistant has had his or her WHS entry permit revoked; or
  2. (b) during any period that the assistant's WHS entry permit is suspended or the assistant is disqualified from holding a WHS entry permit.

An unhandled error has occurred. Reload 🗙