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Work Health and Safety Act 2011
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17 Management of risks
A duty imposed on a person to ensure health and safety requires the
(a) to eliminate risks to health and safety, so far as is reasonably
practicable; and
(b) if it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate risks to health and
safety, to minimise those risks so far as is reasonably
Subdivision 2.1.2 What is reasonably practicable