Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATION 2007 (NO 36 OF 2007) - REG 76

    (1)     An employer must ensure that, in an emergency at the workplace, appropriate systems are in place for—

        (a)     the safe and rapid evacuation of people from the workplace; and

        (b)     emergency communications; and

        (c)     the medical treatment of injured people.

    (2)     An employer who employs employees at a workplace must ensure that—

        (a)     arrangements are made for shutting down and evacuating the workplace in an emergency; and

        (b)     details of the arrangements are displayed in appropriate places at the workplace; and

        (c)     an appropriate number of people are properly trained to oversee any evacuation and use any on-site fire appliances.

    (3)     What is appropriate for subsection (1) and subsection (2) (b) and (c) must be decided having regard to—

        (a)     the nature of the hazards at the workplace; and

        (b)     the size and location of the workplace; and

        (c)     the number, mobility and capability of people at the workplace.