Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS 1996 - REG 3.2

3.2 .         Persons at workplaces to have access to Act etc.

                A person who, at a workplace, is an employer or the main contractor must ensure that, as soon as practicable following a request from a person who works at the workplace, there is available for that person’s perusal an up to date copy of —

            (a)         the Act; and

            (b)         these regulations; and

            (c)         all Australian Standards, Australian/New Zealand Standards and NOHSC documents or parts of those Standards or documents referred to in these regulations that apply to that workplace; and

            (d)         all codes of practice approved under section 57 of the Act that apply to that workplace; and

            (e)         guidelines or forms of guidance referred to in section 14 of the Act —

                  (i)         the titles of which have been published in the Government Gazette and which are set out in Schedule 3.1; and

                  (ii)         which apply to that workplace.

        Penalty:

            (a)         in the case of an individual —

                  (i)         for a first offence, $2 000; and

                  (ii)         for a subsequent offence, $2 500;

                or

            (b)         in the case of a body corporate —

                  (i)         for a first offence, $4 000; and

                  (ii)         for a subsequent offence, $5 000.

        [Regulation 3.2 amended in Gazette 14 Dec 2004 p. 6012.]