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Section : 72 Obligation to train health and safety representatives
Domain : Human Resource Management
Classification : Not Identified

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(1) The person conducting a business or undertaking must, if requested by a health and safety representative for a work group for that business or undertaking, allow the health and safety representative to attend a course of training in work health and safety that is:

(a) approved by the regulator; and
(b) a course that the health and safety representative is entitled under the regulations to attend; and
(c) chosen by the health and safety representative. (2) The person conducting the business or undertaking must:

(a) as soon as practicable within the period of 3 months after the request is made, allow the health and safety representative time off work to attend the course of training; and
(b) pay the course fees and any other reasonable costs associated with the health and safety representative's attendance at the course of training.
(3) If:
(a) a health and safety representative represents a work group of the workers of more than 1 business or undertaking; and
(b) the person conducting any of those businesses or undertakings has complied with this section in relation to the representative;