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55D Control measures
(1) This regulation applies to a person conducting a business or undertaking who implements control measures to manage psychosocial risks in accordance with Part 3.1.
(2) In determining the control measures to implement, the person must have regard to all relevant matters, including:
(a) the duration, frequency and severity of the exposure of workers and other persons to the psychosocial hazards; and
(b) how the psychosocial hazards may interact or combine; and
(c) the design of work, including job demands and tasks; and
(d) the systems of work, including how work is managed, organised and supported; and
(e) the design and layout, and environmental conditions, of the workplace, including the provision of:
(i) safe means of entering and exiting the workplace; and
(ii) facilities for the welfare of workers; and
(f) the design and layout, and environmental conditions, of workers’ accommodation; and
(g) the plant, substances and structures at the workplace; and
(h) workplace interactions or behaviours; and
(i) the information, training, instruction and supervision provided to workers.
(3) For paragraph (2)(f), workers’ accommodation means premises to which subsection 19(4) of the Act applies.