New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2017 - REG 379

379 Duty to provide supervision

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must provide any supervision to a worker that is necessary to protect the worker from risks to the worker's health and safety arising from the work if, at the workplace, the worker--

(a) uses, handles, generates or stores a hazardous chemical, or

(b) operates, tests, maintains, repairs or decommissions a storage or handling system for a hazardous chemical, or

(c) is likely to be exposed to a hazardous chemical.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) in the case of an individual--70 penalty units, or

(b) in the case of a body corporate--345 penalty units.

(2) The person must ensure that the supervision of the worker is suitable and adequate having regard to--

(a) the nature of the risks associated with the hazardous chemical, and

(b) the information, training and instruction required under clause 39.

Note : In addition, section 19(3)(f) of the Act requires the provision of information, training, instruction and supervision.