South Australian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE REGULATIONS 1995 - REG 1.2.2

1.2.2—Employees

        (1)         Subject to any express provision in a particular regulation to the contrary, an employee must, insofar as is within the employee's control (but without derogating from any common law right)—

            (a)         do all such things as are required of him or her by the employer to ensure compliance with these regulations; and

            (b)         use any plant, equipment, clothing, or other items or materials provided under or in accordance with these regulations; and

            (c)         ensure that he or she is not, by the consumption of alcohol or a drug, in such a state as to endanger his or her own safety at work or the safety of any other person; and

            (d)         without derogating from the operation of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c), comply with any regulation that, pursuant to regulation 1.2.14 and Schedule 1, applies to employees.

        (2)         In the event of a contravention of, or failure to comply with—

            (a)         subregulation (1); or

            (b)         any other regulation that specifically applies to employees,

the employee is guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Division 7 fine.