Northern Territory Numbered Acts

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2007 (NO 31 OF 2007) - SECT 60

    (1)     An employer must, if so required by the regulations:

    (a)     monitor the health of the employer's workers or a particular class of workers; and

    (b)     monitor conditions relevant to the health and safety of workers at a workplace under the employer's control; or

    (c)     keep an appropriate record of the results of the monitoring.

    (2)     The records are to be kept in 2 parts:

    (a)     1 (the confidential records ) consisting of information relevant to the health of the individual workers; and

    (b)     the other (the general records ) consisting of all other information.

    (3)     An employer must, at the request of a worker:

    (a)     make the general records available for inspection by the worker or an agent of the worker; and

    (b)     provide information from the confidential records relevant to the worker's own health and safety.

Maximum penalty:     20 penalty units.