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would be not to employ him or her. I believe that by taking out the specific phrase we still do not lose the general requirement to ensure that whoever is being trained understands about occupational health and safety.
The same, I believe, applied to a change in the penalties. Mr Stefaniak wanted to apply penalties to safety representatives. You will find that in his additional comments. If the same penalties that apply to employers applied to the safety representatives, I believe you would have trouble. Some evidence was presented to us that in Victoria, where they have this, there was difficulty in getting safety representatives. I think it is much more important to ensure that we have safety representatives than a situation in which they will not take that risk in case they may be the subject of a penalty.
In recommendations that went beyond the terms of reference certain principles, I think, were particularly important in this case, and I think we were prepared to go beyond those terms of reference because this was the first such report, and some of the areas with which we dealt obviously needed to break new ground. The first of those - - -
Debate interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
MR SPEAKER: It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Ms Follett: I require that the question be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY BILL 1989 - SELECT COMMITTEE
Report
Debate resumed.
MR MOORE: It became very clear that the subordinate legislation regulations that will be attached to the Occupational Health and Safety Bill will be quite wide-ranging and should be reviewed by this Assembly. We will need to have a reasonable and efficient way to review them.
The annual reporting requirement was also, I believe, strained a little to ensure that that annual reporting requirement would take place. We have certainly seen in the press recently a number of articles that have indicated that there are situations in which annual reporting requirements have been up to three and four years behind in
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