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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY - SELECT COMMITTEE
Report
MR STEFANIAK, by leave: In relation to this, it came to my attention and, I think, that of the other members of the committee after the report was released that in chapter 5 on training there were some inaccuracies in what was recorded there and what is the wish of industry, business, employers, employees and unions in relation to training. In the report, the committee stated that it believed that both the ACT Institute of TAFE and TUTA, the Trade Union Training Authority, should be accredited to conduct training programs for health and safety representatives and for the members of health and safety committees, and that employers should be able to choose to which organisations they send their employees for training. That appears at 5.4.
The recommendations that were made by the committee included:
That the Occupational Health and Safety Council consider, in detail;
(a) the provision of health and safety training programs by both the ACT Institute of TAFE and the Trade Union Training Authority; and
(b) the appropriate means of funding such courses.
That was carried over on page 16 of the report in recommendation 8. As a result of approaches made by employers, employer bodies and trade unions, it is the general view of the entire sector there, both unions and employers, that the provision of health and safety training programs be certainly discussed and looked at by the safety council but that it not be restricted to just the ACT Institute of TAFE and the Trade Union Training Authority.
The legislation that currently exists in the Act that was passed last night does not specify any particular authority; it leaves it general. Nor indeed were there any amendments in relation to the recommendations of the committee. But I feel it is important to put on the record and also formally to advise the Government that all parties concerned do not want training restricted to those two bodies. Accordingly, the recommendation in relation to that can be deleted from the Government's consideration of the committee's report. When you get people as diverse as Charlie McDonald and Bob Winnel agreeing on the same point, it is very much unanimous agreement, Mr Speaker.
SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION - STANDING COMMITTEE
MS MAHER, by leave: I wish to inform the Assembly that the committee met yesterday and I was elected chairman. My colleague Mr Collaery was elected deputy chair, and Mr
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