• Workplace rights and obligations
  • General information
  • Who has obligations and what are they?
• Meeting your obligations
• Failing to meet your obligations
• Right of entry
• Provision Improvement Notice (PIN)
• Workplace amenities
• First aid
• Personal protective equipment
• Internal investigations

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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