Workplace Safety and Health Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · General Duties of Persons at Workplaces
13. Duties of self-employed persons
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
It shall be the duty of every self-employed person (whether or not he is also a contractor or sub-contractor) 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.
self-employed person
“self-employed person” means a person who works for gain or reward otherwise than under a contract of service, whether or not employing others;
Every self-employed person 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.
Terms defined in s 4
self-employed person
Defined · s 4“self-employed person” means a person who works for gain or reward otherwise than under a contract of service, whether or not employing others;
sub-contractor
Defined · s 4“sub-contractor” means a person engaged, otherwise than under a contract of service, by any contractor or sub-contractor — (a) to supply any labour for gain or reward; or (b) to do any work for gain or reward, which the contractor or sub-contractor has been engaged as contractor or sub-contractor, as the case may be, to do;
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