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Electrical Safety Act 2002
sec.30Primary duty of care
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### sec.30 Primary duty of care
A person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure the person’s business or undertaking is conducted in a way that is electrically safe.
Without limiting subsection (1) , the duty includes—
ensuring that all electrical equipment used in the conduct of the person’s business or undertaking is electrically safe; and
if the person’s business or undertaking includes the performance of electrical work, ensuring the electrical safety of all persons and property likely to be affected by the electrical work; and
if the person’s business or undertaking includes the performance of work, whether or not electrical work, involving contact with, or being near to, exposed parts, ensuring persons performing the work are electrically safe.
s 30 amd 2004 No. 45 s 116 sch
amd 2011 No. 18 s 344
(sec.30-ssec.1) A person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure the person’s business or undertaking is conducted in a way that is electrically safe.
(sec.30-ssec.2) Without limiting subsection (1) , the duty includes— ensuring that all electrical equipment used in the conduct of the person’s business or undertaking is electrically safe; and if the person’s business or undertaking includes the performance of electrical work, ensuring the electrical safety of all persons and property likely to be affected by the electrical work; and if the person’s business or undertaking includes the performance of work, whether or not electrical work, involving contact with, or being near to, exposed parts, ensuring persons performing the work are electrically safe.
- (a) ensuring that all electrical equipment used in the conduct of the person’s business or undertaking is electrically safe; and
- (b) if the person’s business or undertaking includes the performance of electrical work, ensuring the electrical safety of all persons and property likely to be affected by the electrical work; and
- (c) if the person’s business or undertaking includes the performance of work, whether or not electrical work, involving contact with, or being near to, exposed parts, ensuring persons performing the work are electrically safe.