Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MINES SAFETY AND INSPECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 12

12 .         Employers and self-employed persons, duties of

        (1)         A self-employed person working at a mine must take reasonable care to ensure his or her own safety and health at work.

        (2)         An employer or self-employed person at a mine must, so far as is practicable, ensure that the safety or health of a person, not being (in the case of an employer) an employee of the employer, is not adversely affected wholly or in part as a result of —

            (a)         work that has been or is being undertaken by —

                  (i)         the employer or any employee of the employer; or

                  (ii)         the self-employed person;

                or

            (b)         any hazard that arises from or is increased by —

                  (i)         the work referred to in paragraph (a); or

                  (ii)         the system of work that has been or is being operated by the employer or the self-employed person.

        [Section 12 amended by No. 30 of 1995 s. 56 and 76(4); No. 68 of 2004 s. 8 and 22.]