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Risk Management

Employers or businesses, or anyone who falls under the definition of a ‘person conducting a business or undertaking’ (a PCBU), has legal obligations under work health and safety laws.

  1. identify hazards in the workplace
  2. assess the risk those hazards create
  3. then eliminate or minimise them as much as possible.

An employer and/or PCBU has a legal duty eliminate or minimise risks to health and safety of workers at work in their business or undertaking.

The person with management or control of a workplace also has a legal duty to make sure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that there are no health and safety risks to anyone working in or visiting the workplace. This includes when people are entering or exiting the workplace. It generally does not include residences, unless the residence is occupied for the purpose of conducting a business.

A workplace can include a vehicle, vessel, aircraft, mobile structure or any installation on water that a worker might be at while at work.

Read more at the SafeWork NSW website - click here

A list of templates and relevant documents can be found under "Attachments" on the side of this page.

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