Employers to ensure safety and health of employees
Version Date:
01/06/1998
(1) Every employer must, so far as reasonably practicable, ensure the safety and health at work of all the employer's employees.
(2) The cases in which an employer fails to comply with subsection (1) include (but are not limited to) the following-
(a) a failure to provide or maintain plant and systems of work that are, so far as reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health;
(b) a failure to make arrangements for ensuring, so far as reasonably practicable, safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling, storage or transport of plant or substances;
(c) a failure to provide such information, instruction, training and supervision as may be necessary to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the safety and health at work of the employer's employees;
(d) as regards any workplace under the employer's control-
(i) a failure to maintain the workplace in a condition that is, so far as reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health; or
(ii) a failure to provide or maintain means of access to and egress from the workplace that are, so far as reasonably practicable, safe and without any such risks;
(e) a failure to provide or maintain a working environment for the employer's employees that is, so far as reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health.
(3) An employer who fails to comply with subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $200000.
(4) An employer who fails to comply with subsection (1) intentionally, knowingly or recklessly commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $200000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.