Function of health and safety representatives includes amongst others the following:
1. To review the effectiveness of health and safety measures and identify potential hazards and potential major incidents at the workplace.
2. Collaborate with their employer, examine the cause of incidents at the workplace.
3. Investigate any complaint by an employee relating to his or her health and safety at work.
4. Make representations to the employer on general matters affecting the health and safety of employees at the workplace.
5. Make representations to the employer, a health and safety committee or, where necessary, an inspector.
6. Participate in consultations with inspectors at the workplace and accompany inspectors on inspections of the workplace.
(7) Receive information from inspectors.