This Supplementary Order Paper amends clauses 12 and 13 of the Health and Safety Reform Bill. Its effect is to include within the meaning of “person conducting a business or undertaking” or “PCBU” an occupier of a home in circumstances where the occupier employs or engages another person to do domestic work in the home or to do work in respect of the home.

This Supplementary Order Paper also amends clause 29E. Its effect is to require that where more than 1 person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) has a duty in relation to the same matter, each PCBU with the duty, in consulting, co-operating with, and co-ordinating activities with other PCBUs who have such a duty, must deal with the other PCBUs fairly, be active and constructive in discharging its duty, and not do anything to mislead or deceive the other PCBUs.

This Supplementary Order Paper also amends clause 66. Its effect is to require that when a PCBU determines that there will be more than 1 work group for the purpose of the election of health and safety representatives, the workers are grouped in a manner that has the workers’ agreement.

This Supplementary Order Paper also amends Schedule 1A by deleting clause 9. Clause 9 restricts, with exceptions, health and safety representatives to performing their functions and exercising their powers only in relation to their own work group. This restriction may increase the risk of health and safety risks not being addressed or of delays in health and safety risks being addressed. The deletion of clause 9 of Schedule 1A will permit health and safety representatives to perform their functions and exercise their powers across a PCBU irrespective of the work grouping within the PCBU, thereby ensuring health and safety risks identified by health and safety representatives are addressed at the earliest opportunity.