New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2017 - REG 84

84 Duty of person conducting business or undertaking to ensure direct supervision

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure that a person supervising the work of a person carrying out high risk work as required by clause 82(1) provides direct supervision of the person except in the circumstances set out in subclause (2).

: 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) Direct supervision of a person is not required if--

(a) the nature or circumstances of a particular task make direct supervision impracticable or unnecessary, and

(b) the reduced level of supervision will not place the health or safety of the supervised person or any other person at risk.

(3) In this clause,
"direct supervision" of a person means the oversight by the supervising person of the work of that person for the purposes of--

(a) directing, demonstrating, monitoring and checking the person's work in a way that is appropriate to the person's level of competency, and

(b) ensuring a capacity to respond in an emergency situation.