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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (NATIONAL UNIFORM LEGISLATION) REGULATIONS 2011
40Duty in relation to general workplace facilities
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40 Duty in relation to general workplace facilities
ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the following:
(a) the layout of the workplace allows, and the workplace is
maintained so as to allow, for persons to enter and exit and to
move about without risk to health and safety, both under
normal working conditions and in an emergency;
(b) work areas have space for work to be carried out without risk
to health and safety;
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(c) floors and other surfaces are designed, installed and
maintained to allow work to be carried out without risk to
health and safety;
(d) lighting enables:
(i) each worker to carry out work without risk to health and
safety; and
(ii) persons to move within the workplace without risk to
health and safety; and
(iii) safe evacuation in an emergency;
(e) ventilation enables workers to carry out work without risk to
health and safety;
(f) workers carrying out work in extremes of heat or cold are able
to carry out work without risk to health and safety;
(g) work in relation to or near essential services does not give rise
to a risk to the health and safety of persons at the workplace.
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