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Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967
4Duties of persons in control of parts of facility or particular work
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#### 4 Duties of persons in control of parts of facility or particular work
(1) A person who is in control of any part of a facility, or of any particular work carried out at a facility, must take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that:
(a) that part of the facility, or the place where that work is carried out, is safe and without risk to health; and
(b) if the person is in control of particular work—the work is carried out in a manner that is safe and without risk to health.
Penalty: 1,000 penalty units.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subclause (1), a person who is in control of any part of a facility, or of any particular work carried out at a facility, must:
(a) ensure that the physical environment at that part of the facility or at the place where the work is carried out is safe and without risk to health; and
(b) ensure that any plant, equipment, materials and substances at or near that part of the facility or that place, or used in that work, are safe and without risk to health; and
(c) implement and maintain systems of work at that part of the facility, or in carrying out work at that place, that are safe and without risk to health; and
(d) ensure a means of access to, and egress from, that part of the facility or that place that is safe and without risk to health; and
(e) provide all members of the workforce located at that part of the facility or engaged on that work, in appropriate languages, with the information, instruction, training and supervision necessary for them to carry out their work in a manner that is safe and without risk to health.
Penalty for contravention of this subclause: 1,000 penalty units.