29. Workplace safety and health committees
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Every workplace safety and health committee of a workplace shall comprise representatives of employees of the workplace as well as employers.
The functions of a workplace safety and health committee appointed in respect of a workplace shall be —
to keep under review circumstances in the workplace which affect or may affect the safety or health of persons in the workplace;
to promote co-operation between management and employees in achieving and maintaining safe and healthy working conditions;
to carry out from time to time inspections of the scene of any accident or dangerous occurrence in the interests of the safety and health of the employees;
to exercise such other functions and duties as may be prescribed or conferred on the committee under this Act; and
such other functions as may be prescribed.
The management shall provide such facilities and assistance to the workplace safety and health committee of a workplace as the committee may reasonably require for the purpose of carrying out the committee’s functions and duties under this section.
A workplace safety and health committee shall have such powers as may be prescribed, being necessary powers for the committee to discharge its functions and duties under this Act.