Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS 1996 - REG 3.49

3.49 .         Identification and assessment of hazards in relation to falling

                Without limiting regulation 3.1, a person who, at a workplace, is an employer, the main contractor, a self-employed person, a person having control of the workplace or a person having control of access to the workplace must —

            (a)         identify each hazard to which a person at the workplace is likely to be exposed in relation to the person falling from one level at the workplace to another;

            (b)         assess the risk of injury or harm to a person resulting from each hazard, if any, identified under paragraph (a); and

            (c)         consider the means by which the risk may be reduced.

        Penalty: the regulation 1.16 penalty.

        [Regulation 3.49 inserted in Gazette 30 Mar 2001 p. 1768; amended in Gazette 14 Dec 2004 p. 6018.]