New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2001 - REG 38

38 Controller of premises to provide information

(1) A controller of premises must provide other persons who have responsibilities under this Regulation with all available information that is necessary to enable the other persons to fulfil their responsibilities with respect to the following:

(a) identifying hazards,

(b) assessing risks arising from those hazards,

(c) eliminating or controlling those risks,

(d) providing information.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subclause (1), the controller must provide any employer who uses the premises concerned as a place of work with information about:

(a) any foreseeable hazard arising from the premises that has the potential to harm the health or safety of any person accessing, using or egressing from the premises, and

(b) an assessment of any risk arising from the premises that has not been eliminated by the controller, and

(c) the measures taken by the controller to control any such risk, and

(d) any measures (including use and maintenance of procedures and equipment) that the employer may need to adopt to control any such risk.

Maximum penalty: Level 4.