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

• Laws and prosecutions
• Risk management

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Workers rights and responsibilities

You have a workplace health and safety obligation to yourself and to others.

You must:

• comply with instructions given for workplace health and safety
• use personal protective equipment if the employer provides it and if youre properly instructed in its use
• not wilfully or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided for workplace health and safety at the workplace
• not wilfully place others at risk
• not wilfully injure yourself
  
  

For further details on your workplace health and safety obligations, refer to part 3 of the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (PDF, 766 KB).