Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS 1996 - REG 1.5

1.5 .         Responsibility of self-employed persons

                Unless the contrary intention appears, where a self-employed person has a duty under a provision of these regulations to do or not do something in relation to a workplace, the self-employed person’s duty —

            (a)         relates only to a matter over which, and the extent to which, the self-employed person has control or can reasonably be expected to have control having regard to the workplace and the work done or caused to be done by the self-employed person; and

            (b)         is limited to himself or herself and to any other person who may be affected wholly or in part as a result of the work done or caused to be done by the self-employed person.