South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) An employee must
take reasonable care to protect the employee's own health and safety at work.
Maximum penalty: Division 7 fine.
(1a) An employee must
take reasonable care to avoid adversely affecting the health or safety of any
other person through an act or omission at work.
Maximum penalty: Division 6 fine.
(1b) An employee must
so far as is reasonable (but without derogating from subsection (1) or
(1a) or from any common law right)—
(a) use
equipment provided for health or safety purposes; and
(b) obey
reasonable instruction that the employer may give in relation to health or
safety at work; and
(c)
comply with any policy that applies at the workplace published or approved by
the Minister after seeking the advice of the Advisory Committee; and
(d)
ensure that the employee is not, by the consumption of alcohol or a drug, in
such a state as to endanger the employee's own safety at work or the safety of
any other person at work.
Maximum penalty: Division 6 fine.
(2) In determining the
standard of care applicable to a worker whose native language is not English
and who is not reasonably fluent in English regard must be had to—
(a)
whether information relating to occupational health and safety has been
reasonably available to the worker in a language and form that the worker
might reasonably be expected to understand; and
(b)
whether instruction or training of the worker (if any) has been carried out in
a language and form that the worker might reasonably be expected to
understand.