Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992
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Commenced: 1 Apr 1993
ANALYSIS
Analysis
Title
1 Short Title and commencement
I: Preliminary
2 Interpretation
3 Application of Act to the Crown
4 Act not to affect other legislation
5 Objects
II: Duties Relating to Health and Safety in Employment
General Duties of Employers
6 Employers to ensure safety of employees
Duties of Employers in relation to Hazard Management
7 Identification of hazards
8 Significant hazards to employees to be eliminated if practicable
9 Significant hazards to employees to be isolated where elimination impracticable
10 Significant hazards to employees to be minimised, and employees to be protected, where elimination and isolation impracticable
Duties of Employers in relation to Information
11 Employees to be given results of monitoring
12 Information for employees generally
Duties of Employers in relation to Training and Supervision
13 Training and supervision
14 Employers to involve employees in development of health and safety procedures
Other Duties
15 Duties of employers to people who are not employees
16 Duties of persons with control of places of work
17 Duties of self-employed people
18 Duties of principals
19 Duties of employees
III: Standards
Codes of Practice
20 Codes of practice
Regulations
21 Regulations
22 Application of regulations
23 Other provisions relating to regulations
24 Saving of regulations made under certain repealed enactments
IV: General Provisions
Accidents
25 Recording and notification of accidents and serious harm
26 No interference at accident scene
27 Inquiry into cause of accident
28 Coroner may call for report on fatal accident
Inspectors
29 Inspectors
30 Functions of inspectors
31 Powers of entry and inspection
32 Inspectors to prove identity
33 Powers to take samples and other objects and things
Departmental Medical Practitioners
34 Appointment of departmental medical practitioners
35 Powers of entry and inspection of departmental medical practitioners
36 Departmental medical practitioners may require medical examinations of employees
37 Departmental medical practitioners may suspend employees in certain cases
38 Administrative provisions
Improvement and Prohibition Notices
39 Inspectors may issue improvement notices
40 How improvement notices to be given
41 Inspectors may issue prohibition notices
42 Service of prohibition notices
43 Compliance with prohibition notices
44 How notices to be addressed
45 Matters may be completed by different inspectors
Appeals
46 Appeals against notices
Duties in respect of Inspectors
47 Duty of assistance
48 Obstruction, etc.
Offences and Penalties
49 Offences likely to cause serious harm
50 Other offences
51 Actions taken to prevent harm
52 Failure to comply with section 14
53 Strict liability
54 Only inspectors to institute prosecutions
55 Other provisions relating to offences
56 Offences by bodies corporate
Proof of Notices
57 Proof of notices
Personation of Inspectors
58 Personation of inspectors
Funding of Administration
59 Funding
Information Provided by Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation
60 Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation may provide information
Non-compliance with Other Enactments
61 Inspectors to notify local authority
Amendments, Repeals, Revocations, and Savings
62 Consequential amendments, repeals, revocations, and savings
Schedule(s)
1 FIRST SCHEDULE: Serious Harm
2 SECOND SCHEDULE:
3 THIRD SCHEDULE: Enactments Repealed
4 FOURTH SCHEDULE: Orders in Council and Notices Revoked