Powers of Entry and Inspection
To be effective, inspectors need to be able to freely go into any workplace and look at what is, or has been, happening there.
Therefore the Act authorises them to:
- Enter workplaces at any reasonable time
- Conduct examinators, tests, inquiries, and inspections
- Bring with them other people with relevant expertise
- Take photographs and measurements
- Sketch or record things
- Require the workplace to be left undisturbed
- Require the production of documents
- Ask for statements to be made
- Take samples.
If the workplace is in or through a home then entry is only possible if the inspector gets the permission of the owner or, failing that, gets a warrant from a Judge.
