• 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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Workplace visitors

You have a responsibility regarding your own health and safety when visiting a workplace, and an obligation to others at that workplace.

You must:

• follow directions given by an employer to maintain workplace health and safety
• do what a principal contractor tells you, if at a construction workplace
• not wilfully misuse or recklessly interfere with anything provided for workplace health and safety
• not wilfully place the safety and wellbeing of others at risk
• not wilfully injure yourself.