Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 55D

55D Determining control measures for psychosocial risks

(1) This section applies to a person conducting a business or undertaking who implements control measures to manage psychosocial risks under part 3.1 .

Note—

If a psychosocial risk is or includes a risk of sexual harassment or sex or gender-based harassment, see also subdivision 3 .

(2) In determining the control measures to implement, the person conducting the business or undertaking must have regard to all relevant matters, including—

(a) the duration, frequency or severity of the exposure of workers and other persons to psychosocial hazards; and

(b) how the psychosocial hazards may interact or combine; and

(c) the design of work, including job demands and tasks; and

(d) the systems of work, including how work is managed, organised and supported; and

(e) the design and layout, and environmental conditions, of the workplace, including the provision of—

(i) safe means of entering and exiting the workplace; and

(ii) facilities for the welfare of workers; and

(f) the design and layout, and environmental conditions, of workers’ accommodation; and

(g) the plant, substances and structures at the workplace; and

(h) workplace interactions or behaviours; and

(i) the information, training, instruction and supervision provided to workers.

(3) In this section—

"worker’s accommodation" means premises to which section 19 (4) of the Act applies.