(1) The employees at a workplace may elect from among themselves any full-time health and safety representatives that may be agreed or determined in terms of this Chapter.

(2) To qualify to serve as a full-time health and safety representative an employee must –

(a) be employed in full-time capacity at the workplace;

(b) comply with any other qualifications which may be –

                                       (i) agreed by a health and safety committee; or

                                      (ii) prescribed.

(3) The employer must pay every full-time health and safety representative appropriate remuneration at least equal to the remuneration the representative earned immediately before being appointed as a full-time health and safety representative.

(4) On the completion of a term of office as a full-time health and safety representative, the health and safety representative is entitled to –

(a) employment in the same position held immediately before being appointed as a full-time health and safety representative;  or

(b) employment in a position that is at least as favourable as the position held immediately before being appointed as a full-time health and safety representative.