Employees can expect their employer to provide a healthy and safe workplace. However, employees also have a part to play in making sure they stay healthy and safe.

The Act reflects that everyone has a role in health and safety by:

• placing various duties on employers to ensure the health and safety of employees
• placing duties on employees to ensure their own health and safety
• ensuring employees have an opportunity to have input into health and safety at work
• giving employee health and safety representatives a special role in promoting health and safety