Western Australian Consolidated Acts

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1984 - SECT 21

21 .         Duties of employers and self-employed persons

        (1)         A self-employed person shall take reasonable care to ensure his or her own safety and health at work.

        (2)         An employer or self-employed person shall, so far as is practicable, ensure that the safety or health of a person, not being (in the case of an employer) an employee of the employer, is not adversely affected wholly or in part as a result of —

            (a)         work that has been or is being undertaken by —

                  (i)         the employer or any employee of the employer; or

                  (ii)         the self-employed person;

                or

            (b)         any hazard that arises from or is increased by —

                  (i)         the work referred to in paragraph (a); or

                  (ii)         the system of work that has been or is being operated by the employer or the self-employed person.

        [Section 21 inserted by No. 43 of 1987 s. 13; amended by No. 30 of 1995 s. 15 and 47; No. 51 of 2004 s. 6 and 21.]