Workplace Safety and Health (Construction) Regulations 2007

Workplace safety and health co-ordinator

6.—(1) For the purposes of section 28(1) of the Act, a workplace safety and health co-ordinator shall be appointed in respect of every worksite where the contract sum of the building operation or works of engineering construction carried out therein is less than $10 million.

(2) Every workplace safety and health co-ordinator shall be appointed by the occupier of every worksite referred to in paragraph (1).

(3) The occupier of the worksite shall not appoint any person as a workplace safety and health co-ordinator unless the person is one —

(a)	who has successfully completed a training course to equip him to be a workplace safety and health co-ordinator;
(b)	whom the occupier reasonably believes is competent to perform the functions and duties of a workplace safety and health co-ordinator; and
(c)	whom the occupier reasonably believes has at least 2 years’ practical experience relevant to the work to be performed by a workplace safety and health co-ordinator.

(4) Any occupier of a worksite who contravenes paragraph (2) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.

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