Workplace Safety and Health Act · s 12

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12.
Duties of employers
(1) It shall be the duty of every employer to take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures as are necessary to ensure the safety and health of his employees at work.
(2) It shall be the duty of every employer to take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures as are necessary to ensure the safety and health of persons (not being his employees) who may be affected by any undertaking carried on by him at the workplace.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), the measures necessary to ensure the safety and health of persons at work include —
(a) providing and maintaining for those persons a work environment that is safe, without risk to health, and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work;
(b) ensuring that adequate safety measures are taken in respect of any machinery, equipment, plant, article or process used by those persons;
(c) ensuring that those persons are not exposed to hazards arising out of the arrangement, disposal, manipulation, organisation, processing, storage, transport, working or use of things —
(i) in their workplace; or
(ii) near their workplace and under the control of the employer;
(d) developing and implementing procedures for dealing with emergencies that may arise while those persons are at work;
(e) ensuring that the person at work has adequate instruction, information, training and supervision as is necessary for him to perform his work;

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(f)
the provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health.
(4) Every employer shall, where required by the regulations, give to persons (not being his employees) the prescribed information about such aspects of the way in which he conducts his undertaking as might affect their safety or health while they are at his workplace.

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s 12Duties of employers

(1)

It shall be the duty of every employer to take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures as are necessary to ensure the safety and health of his employees at work.

(2)

It shall be the duty of every employer to take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures as are necessary to ensure the safety and health of persons (not being his employees) who may be affected by any undertaking carried on by him at the workplace.

(3)

For the purposes of subsection (1), the measures necessary to ensure the safety and health of persons at work include —

(a)

providing and maintaining for those persons a work environment that is safe, without risk to health, and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work;

(b)

ensuring that adequate safety measures are taken in respect of any machinery, equipment, plant, article or process used by those persons;

(c)

ensuring that those persons are not exposed to hazards arising out of the arrangement, disposal, manipulation, organisation, processing, storage, transport, working or use of things —

(i)

in their workplace; or

(ii)

near their workplace and under the control of the employer;

(d)

developing and implementing procedures for dealing with emergencies that may arise while those persons are at work;

(e)

ensuring that the person at work has adequate instruction, information, training and supervision as is necessary for him to perform his work;

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(f)

the provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health.

(4)

Every employer shall, where required by the regulations, give to persons (not being his employees) the prescribed information about such aspects of the way in which he conducts his undertaking as might affect their safety or health while they are at his workplace.