Principal contractors
Principal contractors must:
- assist employers and/or self-employed people at the workplace to discharge their workplace health and safety obligations
- protect people at the workplace from exposure to risks arising from something provided for general use at the workplace and a hazard for which no one else owes a workplace health and safety obligation
- protect members of the public from injury or illness caused by work activities at or near the workplace
- provide safeguards and take safety measures under a regulation made for principal contractors
- ensure people at the workplace comply with their workplace health and safety obligations
For more details on your workplace health and safety obligations, refer to part 3 of the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (PDF, 766 KB).
Last updated December 19, 2005
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