Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

WORK SAFETY ACT 2008 (NO. 51 OF 2008) - SECT 49

    (1)     For section 48, a worker consultation unit must be established in a way that best and most conveniently allows the work safety interests of the workers in the unit to be represented and safeguarded.

    (2)     The employer must consult the employer's workers in establishing the worker consultation unit.

    (3)     The employer and the employer's workers may, either separately or together, ask someone else to assist in the establishment of the worker consultation unit.

    (4)     In deciding the way that the worker consultation unit is established, the employer must consider the following in relation to the employer's workers:

        (a)     the number and grouping of workers;

        (b)     workers' working hours, including the representation of workers on shift work;

        (c)     the pattern of work of workers, including the representation of part-time, casual, seasonal or short-term workers;

        (d)     the geographic location of workplaces, including any dispersed locations, home-based work or transport work;

        (e)     the nature of different kinds of work carried out by workers, work arrangements and the levels of responsibility;

        (f)     workers' characteristics, including gender, ethnicity, age and special needs;

        (g)     the hazards or risks to work safety at the workplace;

        (h)     the interaction of workers with the workers of other employers.