Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 8 · Workplace Safety and Health Council
40A. Functions of Council
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Council
“Council” means the Workplace Safety and Health Council established under section 39;
to develop or facilitate the development of acceptable practices relating to safety, health and welfare at work;
at work
“at work” means —(a)in relation to an employee, all times when the employee is performing work in connection with any trade, business, profession or undertaking carried on by his or her employer, wherever that work is carried out;(b)in relation to a self-employed person, all times when the person is performing work as a self-employed person, wherever the work is carried out; and(c)in any other case, all times when the person is performing work at the direction of the other person who engaged him or her, wherever the work is carried out;
to promote the adoption of acceptable practices relating to safety, health and welfare at work;
to devise, organise and implement programmes and other activities for or related to providing support, assistance or advice to any person or organisation in preserving, improving and promoting safety, health and welfare at work;
to facilitate and promote the development and upgrading of competencies, skills and expertise of the workforce relating to safety, health and welfare at work;
to research into any matter relating to safety, health and welfare at work;
to grant prizes and scholarships, and to establish and subsidise lectureships in universities and other educational institutions in subjects relating to safety, health and welfare at work;
to provide practical guidance with respect to the requirements of this Act relating to safety, health and welfare at work; and
to do all the things that it is authorised or required to do under this Act.