Section 69 — Health and Safety at Work Act 2015: Provisional improvement notices

69 Provisional improvement notices (1) This section applies if a health and safety representative reasonably believes that a person is contravening, or is likely to contravene, a provision of this Act or regulations. (2) The health and safety representative may issue a provisional improvement notice requiring the person to— (a) remedy the contravention; or (b) prevent a likely contravention from occurring; or (c) remedy the things or activities causing the contravention or likely to cause a contravention. (3) However, the health and safety representative must not issue a provisional improvement notice to a person unless he or she has first consulted the person. (4) A health and safety representative must not issue a provisional improvement notice in relation to a matter if an inspector has already issued an improvement notice or a prohibition notice in relation to the same matter. (5) If a health and safety representative issues a provisional improvement notice, he or she must provide a copy of that notice to the PCBU of the work group that the health and safety representative represents, as soon as practicable. Compare: Model Work Health and Safety Act (Aust) s 90