Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS 1996 - REG 3.1

3.1 .         Identification of hazards, and assessing and addressing risks, at workplaces

                A person who, at a workplace, is an employer, the main contractor, a self‑employed person, a person having control of the workplace or a person having control of access to the workplace must, as far as practicable —

            (a)         identify each hazard to which a person at the workplace is likely to be exposed; and

            (b)         assess the risk of injury or harm to a person resulting from each hazard, if any, identified under paragraph (a); and

            (c)         consider the means by which the risk may be reduced.

        Penalty: the regulation 1.16 penalty.

        [Regulation 3.1 amended in Gazette 14 Dec 2004 p. 6018.]