Last Change:

06/28/2024

Occupational Safety and Health Act (2006)

Year: 2006

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Social protection, Work & Workplace rights

Description

An Act to consolidate, harmonize and update the law relating to occupational safety and health and to provide for connected matters.

Selected provisions
Section 13(1) - Duty of employer to protect workers.

It is the responsibility of an employer—
(a) to take, as far as is reasonably practicable, all measures for the protection of his or her workers and the general public from the dangerous aspects of the employer’s undertaking at his or her own cost;
(b) to ensure, as far is reasonably practicable, that the working environment is kept free from any hazard due to pollution by-
(i) employing technical measures, applied to new plant or processes in design or installation, or added to existing plant or processes; or
(ii) employing supplementary organisational measures.