Northern Territory Numbered Acts

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2007 (NO 31 OF 2007) - SECT 57

    (1)     An employer has a duty to take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that:

    (a)     workplace infrastructure or equipment, and workplace materials, are safe; and

    (b)     workers are, where necessary, properly instructed in the use, and warned about risks involved in the use, of workplace infrastructure or equipment, and workplace materials; and

    (c)     if workplace materials are poisonous – adequate toxicological information is available.

    (2)     The duty extends, to the extent that may be appropriate in the circumstances, to a person who:

    (a)     owns, designs, constructs, manufactures, imports, installs or supplies workplace infrastructure or equipment or any component of workplace infrastructure or equipment; or

    (b)     designs, manufactures, imports or supplies workplace materials.

    (3)     An employer or other person who fails to comply with a duty under this section is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty:     1 000 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.