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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2011 - REG 201

Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that install, construct or commission plant

  (1)   This regulation applies to a person who conducts a business or undertaking that installs, constructs or commissions plant that is to be used, or could reasonably be expected to be used, as, or at, a workplace.

  (2)   The person must ensure that the plant is installed, constructed or commissioned having regard to:

  (a)   the information provided by the designer, manufacturer, importer or supplier of the plant under the Act and these Regulations; or

  (b)   the instructions provided by a competent person to the extent that those instructions relate to health and safety.

Penalty:

  (a)   In the case of an individual--$6   000.

  (b)   In the case of a body corporate--$30   000.

Note:   Section   12F of the Act provides that strict liability applies to each physical element of each offence under the Act, unless otherwise stated. The reference in section   12F of the Act includes these Regulations.


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