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This is great question and a very important one too! Legal appointments in health and safety are very important because the OHS Act and its Regulations requires certain mandatory appointments to be made in the interests of health and safety. This means failure to have these appointments, automatically means non-compliance with the Act, which immediately places the employer at fault.Alth View Full Answer
Unfortunately, no! You cannot simply appoint some verbally. When a legal appointment is made, it has to be made in writing with both the appointer and appointee signing confirmation and acknowledgement of the fact.Something else which is also very important to note about legal appointments, is the fact that you cannot simply appoint anyone as a legal appointment. It is very important th View Full Answer
A great question! By definition, the OHS Act and its Regulations, require a number of legal appointments to be made in health and safety, which are considered mandatory. Most of these appointments are general appointments required in health and safety, while the GMR (2)(1) is applicable to specific work environments where machinery would be used. The table below, briefly summarises thes View Full Answer
Ah, well spotted! Yes, you are quite correct, there is also another mandatory appointment, the 16(1) appointment, which refers to the head of the organisation. While you can make this appointment in writing, it is not really necessary, since the OHS Act makes this appointment compulsory in its definition:16 (1) - Every chief executive officer shall as far as reasonably practi View Full Answer
This is a really good question! Although you have mandatory legal appointments in health and safety, there are other important health and safety appointments you can also make, some of which, you will find necessary in your health and safety. With that being the case, it is always good practice to make the appointments in writing, as this helps to ensure the required functions are carri View Full Answer
A good question! When a legal appointment is made, there are a number of details the letter should include, in order for the letter clear, transparent and valid. These main requirements are as follows:1/. The name of the entity must be indicated. 2/. The name of the person being appointed and their designation must be stated. 3/. The area of responsibility of the person being View Full Answer
Ah, yes, legal appointments! These are very important in your profile! The Legal Appointments register displays details of employees who have been legally appointed for health and safety, at your branch. This register can be accessed in the Legal Appointments option, in the Registers option from the main Menu Bar:
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A great question! The Legal Appointments register is where you'll find details of all legal health and safety appointments made, which are relevant to your branch. In the register you are able to add new appointments, update existing appointments and print legal appointments:
Clicking on a specific legal appointment in the register, w View Full Answer
A good question! Keeping your Legal Appointments register up-to-date means that all your legal appointments are current and available. This means if you are ever visited by the Department of Labour (DOL), you are able to show that your legal structure is in place. This indicates that you have responsible people, taking care of and ensuring that your workplace is kept health and safe. View Full Answer
Okay, great! You need to add a new appointment to appointments register! No problems! Let's take a closer look at how to do this, shall we! Let's say we need to add a Contractor Controller appointment to our Legal Appointments register. Firstly, you will need to be in your Legal Appointments register to do this:
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Yep, no problems! You've added your new appointment to your Legal appointments register and now you need to print the letter of appointment! To show this, let's use our example of the Contractor Controller appointment which we added to our Legal Appointments register! Again, you will need to be in your Legal Appointments register and you will need to open the appointment in question:
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Ah, a good question! Yes, there are two parts to a letter of appointment when it is printed from the Legal Appointments register. This is because, in addition to the actual letter of appointment, the initial part of the letter provides an explanation of the purpose of the letter. This is added to assist the appointee in understanding his appointment and where it comes from:
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