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Work Health and Safety Regulations 2012
Div 1Information, training and instruction
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Division 1—Information, training and instruction
39—Provision of information, training and instruction
(1) This regulation applies for the purposes of section 19 of the Act to a person conducting a business or undertaking.
(2) The person must ensure that information, training and instruction provided to a worker is suitable and adequate having regard to—
(a) the nature of the work carried out by the worker; and
(b) the nature of the risks associated with the work at the time the information, training or instruction is provided; and
(c) the control measures implemented.
(3) The person must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the information, training and instruction provided to a worker is provided in a way that is readily understandable by any person to whom it is provided.
Division 2—General working environment
40—Duty in relation to general workplace facilities
A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must 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;
(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.
41—Duty to provide and maintain adequate and accessible facilities
(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the provision of adequate facilities for workers, including toilets, drinking water, washing facilities and eating facilities.
(2) The person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the facilities provided under subregulation (1) are maintained so as to be—
(a) in good working order; and
(b) clean, safe and accessible.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation, a person conducting a business or undertaking must have regard to all relevant matters, including the following:
(c) the size, location and nature of the workplace;
(d) the number and composition of the workers at the workplace.