A health and safety representative may perform the following functions in respect of the workplace or section of the workplace for which he has been designated, namely-
(a) review the effectiveness of health and safety measures;
(b) identify potential hazards and potential major incidents at the workplace;
(c) in collaboration with his employer, examine the causes of incidents at the workplace;
(d) investigate complaints by any employee relating to that employee’s health or safety at work;
(e) make representations to the employer or a health and safety committee on matters arising from paragraphs
(a), (b), (c) or (d), or where such representations are unsuccessful, to an inspector;
(f) make representations to the employer on general matters affecting the health or safety of the employees at the workplace;
(g) inspect the workplace, including any article, substance, plant, machinery or health and safety equipment at that workplace with a view to the health and safety of employees, at such intervals as may be agreed upon with the employer: Provided that the health and safety representative shall give reasonable notice of his
intention to carry out such an inspection to the employer, who may be present during the inspection;
(h) participate in consultations with inspectors at the workplace and accompany inspectors on inspections of the workplace;
(i) receive information from inspectors as contemplated in section 36; and
(j) in his capacity as a health and safety representative attend meetings of the health and safety committee of which he is a member, in connection with any of the above functions.