Summary

Current legislation requires every organisation to identify and manage work place hazards. It is an employer's responsibility to protect their employees from harm arising from exposure to any hazards in the workplace.

Hazards

A Hazard is defined as "… an activity, arrangement, circumstance, event occurrence, phenomenon, process, situation or substance (whether arising or caused within or outside a place of work) that is an actual or potential cause or source of harm"

Once a hazard is identified in the work place, it must be recorded and employees notified of its existence.