What employees can expect from employers
Employers have a number of duties under the Act to keep employees safe and healthy. These include:
- identifying hazards that arise at work
- eliminating those hazards, or if this isn't possible, managing them to make sure they don't hurt employees
- providing employees with informationto enable them to work safely
- making sure that employees have the right knowledge, experience and supervision to work safely
- giving employees the opportunity to have an input into health and safety either informally or through an employee participation system.
Go to:
- Hazard identification and management
- Providing information
- Providing protective clothing and equipment
- Training and supervision
- Involving employees in health and safety matters
- Developing an employee participation system
- Employee participation systems
- Fact sheet: Personal protective clothing and equipment pdf file [size: 27KB]
