Crown Employees (Teachers in Schools and Related Employees) Salaries and Conditions Award 2006

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by New South Wales Teachers Federation, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

 

(No. IRC 1332 of 2006)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Insert in alphabetical order clause 1, Arrangement, of the award published 30 June 2006 (359 I.G. 1114), the following new clause and subject matter and renumber the existing clause 36, Area, Incidence and Duration to read as clause 37:

 

36.       Occupational Health & Safety

 

2.          Renumber clause 36, Area, Incidence and Duration, to read as clause 37 and inert the following new clause 36:

 

36.       Occupational Health & Safety

 

36.1      For the purposes of this clause, the following definitions shall apply:

 

36.1.1   A "labour hire business" is a businesses (whether an organisation, business enterprise, company, partnership, co-operative, sole trader, family trust or unit trust, corporation and/or person) which has as its business function, or one of its business functions, to supply staff employed or engaged by it to another employer for the purpose of such staff performing work or services for that other employer

 

36.1.2   A "contract business" is a business (whether an organisation, business enterprise, company, partnership, co-operative, sole trader, family trust or unit trust, corporation and/or person) which is contracted by another employer to provide a specified service or services or to produce a specific outcome or result for that other employer which might otherwise have been carried out by that other employer’s own employees.

 

36.2      If the employer engages a labour hire business and/or a contract business to perform work wholly or partially on the employer’s premises, the employer shall do the following (either directly, or through the agency of the labour hire or contract business):

 

36.2.1   consult with employees of the labour hire business and/or contract business regarding the workplace occupational health and safety consultative arrangements;

 

36.2.2   provide employees of the labour hire business and/or contract business with appropriate occupational health and safety induction training including the appropriate training required for such employees to perform their jobs safely.

 

36.2.3   provide employees of the labour hire business and/or contract business with appropriate personal protective equipment and/or clothing and all safe work method statements that they would otherwise supply to their own employees; and

 

36.2.4   ensure employees of the labour hire business and/or contract business are made aware of any risks identified in the workplace and the procedures to control those risks.

 

36.3      Nothing in this clause is intended to affect or detract from any obligation or responsibility upon a labour hire business arising under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000 or the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998.

 

3.          This variation is to take effect on and from 30 May 2006.

 

 

 

F. L. WRIGHT J , President

 

 

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