23Primary safety duty

23 Primary safety duty (1) A person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure that the business or undertaking is safe from electrical risk. (2) Without limiting subsection (1), the duty includes ensuring that: (a) any electrical equipment used in the person’s business or undertaking is safe from electrical risk; and (b) any individual or property likely to be affected by any electrical work performed by the business or undertaking is safe from electrical risk; and (c) any individual performing work in the business or undertaking involving contact with, or being near to, an exposed conductor or an exposed component of an item of electrical equipment is safe from electrical risk.