Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828:clause:3_24
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 24
Character Range: 2236207–2237676

24  Manner of grouping members of the workforce
 (1) Consultations about the establishment or variation of a designated work group must be directed principally towards the determination of the manner of grouping members of the workforce:
 (a) that best and most conveniently enables their interests relating to occupational health and safety to be represented and safeguarded; and
 (b) that best takes account of the need for any health and safety representative selected for that designated work group to be accessible to each group member.
 (2) The parties to the consultations must have regard, in particular, to:
 (a) the number of members of the workforce at the facility to which the consultation relates; and
 (b) the nature of each type of work performed by such members; and
 (c) the number and grouping of such members who perform the same or similar types of work; and
 (d) the workplaces where each type of work is performed; and
 (e) the nature of any risks to health and safety at each such workplace; and
 (f) any overtime or shift working arrangement at the facility.
 (3) The designated work groups must be established or varied in such a way that, so far as practicable, each of the members of the workforce at a facility is in a designated work group.
 (4) All the members of the workforce at a facility may be in one designated work group.

Division 3—Health and safety representatives

Subdivision A—Selection of health and safety representatives