Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) An employee at a
mine must take reasonable care —
(a) to
ensure his or her own safety and health at work; and
(b) to
avoid adversely affecting the safety or health of any other person through any
act or omission at work.
(2) Without limiting
the generality of subsection (1), an employee contravenes that subsection
if that employee —
(a)
fails to comply, so far as the employee is reasonably able, with instructions
given by that employee’s employer or the manager of the mine for the
employee’s own safety or health or for the safety or health of other
persons; or
(b)
fails to use such protective clothing and equipment as is provided, or
provided for, by the employer as mentioned in section 9(1)(d) in a manner
in which the employee has been properly instructed to use it; or
(c)
misuses or damages any equipment provided in the interests of safety or
health; or
(d)
being an underground worker, fails on leaving work at the end of a shift to
report to the person in immediate authority over that employee and, where
practicable, the person relieving that employee, on the state of that part of
the works where the employee has been working.
(3) An employee must
cooperate with his or her employer and the manager of the mine in the carrying
out by those persons of the obligations imposed on those persons under this
Act.
[Section 10 amended by No. 30 of 1995
s. 55 and 76(1), (3) and (4); No. 68 of 2004 s. 20.]