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Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011
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55 Minimising risk associated with falling objects
(1) This regulation applies if it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate the risk referred to in regulation 54.
(2) The person conducting the business or undertaking at a workplace must minimise the risk of an object falling on a person by providing adequate protection against the risk in accordance with this regulation.
Note: Section 12F of the Act provides that strict liability applies to each physical element of each offence under the Act, unless otherwise stated. The reference in section 12F of the Act includes these Regulations.
(3) The person provides adequate protection against the risk if the person provides and maintains a safe system of work, including:
(a) preventing an object from falling freely, so far as is reasonably practicable; or
(b) if it is not reasonably practicable to prevent an object from falling freely—providing, so far as is reasonably practicable, a system to arrest the fall of a falling object.
1 Providing a secure barrier.
2 Providing a safe means of raising and lowering objects.
3 Providing an exclusion zone persons are prohibited from entering.
Division 11—Psychosocial risks
55A Meaning of psychosocial hazard
A psychosocial hazard is a hazard that:
(a) arises from, or relates to:
(i) the design or management of work; or
(ii) a work environment; or
(iii) plant at a workplace; or
(iv) workplace interactions or behaviours; and
(b) may cause psychological harm (whether or not it may also cause physical harm).