Mandatory scheme
Primary duty of care for work health and safety
Primary duty of care for work health and safety — mandatory scheme, New Zealand. It binds every PCBU (person conducting a business or undertaking) — the Act's term for the work-health-and-safety duty holder.
- Jurisdiction
- New Zealand
- Record class
- Mandatory scheme
- Last verified
Where this applies
This record is scoped to New Zealand. Scope is part of the claim: a rule that binds one part of a country does not bind the whole of it, and this library states the scope its sources state.
Instrument
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (No 70), s.36
Who it binds
Every PCBU (person conducting a business or undertaking) — the Act's term for the work-health-and-safety duty holder.
What it requires
s.36 requires a PCBU to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of workers and that other people are not put at risk by the business's work — including providing and maintaining a safe work environment, safe plant and structures, safe systems of work, and adequate information, training, instruction and supervision. WorkSafe New Zealand, established as a Crown agent under the WorkSafe New Zealand Act 2013, is the regulator. This duty shares its "reasonably practicable" / PCBU framing with Australia's model WHS laws, but the two are separate statutes, not the same law.
Route to the authority
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