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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2007 (SR NO 54 OF 2007) - REG 3.1.1

Hazard identification

r. 3.1.1

    (1)     An employer must, so far as is reasonably practicable, identify any task undertaken, or to be undertaken, by an employee involving hazardous manual handling.    

Notes

1         Act compliance—section 21 (see regulation 1.1.7).

2         Hazardous manual handling is defined in regulation 1.1.5).        

    (2)     An employer may carry out a hazard identification under subregulation (1) for a class of tasks rather than for individual tasks if—

        (a)     all the tasks in the class are similar; and

        (b)     the identification carried out for the class of tasks does not result in any person being subject to any greater, additional or different risk to health and safety than if the identification were carried out for each individual task.



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