Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 1995 - SECT 10

(1) A person is an employer if--

(a) the person conducts a business or undertaking; and

(b) in the conduct of the business or undertaking, the person engages someone else to do work, other than under a contract for services, for or at the direction of the person.

(2) For subsection (1)(b), a person engages someone else to do work whether the person engaged works for gain or reward or on a voluntary basis.

(3) For an apprentice or trainee who is employed by a group training organisation, the employer is--

(a) when the apprentice or trainee is engaged to do work for a host employer--the host employer; or

(b) otherwise--the group training organisation.

(4) In this section--

apprentice means an apprentice under the Vocational Education, Training and Employment Act 2000.

group training organisation means a group training organisation under the Vocational Education, Training and Employment Act 2000.

host employer means a person who contracts with a group training organisation for the training of apprentices and trainees.

trainee means a trainee under the Vocational Education, Training and Employment Act 2000.