New Zealand Legislation: Acts

7 General safety duties of rail participants and persons working for rail participants

• (1) A rail participant must take all practicable steps on its part to ensure that none of the rail activities for which it is responsible causes, or is likely to cause, the death of, or serious injury to, individuals.

  (2) No rail personnel of a rail participant may do or omit to do anything in respect of a rail vehicle, railway infrastructure, or railway premises if he or she knows or ought reasonably to know that act or omission will cause, or will be likely to cause, the death of, or serious injury to, individuals.