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 information to 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: 27k]