Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2011 - REG 314

    The principal contractor for a construction project must put in place arrangements for ensuring compliance at the workplace with the following:

  (a)   Division   2 of Part   3.2;

  (b)   Division   3 of Part   3.2;

  (c)   Division   4 of Part   3.2;

  (d)   Division   5 of Part   3.2;

  (e)   Division   7 of Part   3.2;

  (f)   Division   8 of Part   3.2;

  (g)   Division   9 of Part   3.2;

  (h)   Division   10 of Part   3.2;

  (i)   Part   4.4.

Penalty:

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

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

Note 1:   All persons conducting a business or undertaking at the construction project workplace have these same duties (see Part   3.2 of these Regulations and section   19 of the Act). Section   16 of the Act provides for situations in which more than one person has the same duty.

Note 2:   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.