Health and Safety at Work (General Risk and Workplace Management) Regulations 2016

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Reprint as at 1 December 2020

Health and Safety at Work (General Risk and Workplace Management) Regulations 2016

(LI 2016/13)

Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 15th day of February 2016

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.

These regulations are made under sections 211, 213, and 218 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015—

(a)

on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council; and

(b)

on the recommendation of the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety made after complying with sections 213(3), 217, and 219 of that Act.

1	Title
2	Commencement
3	Interpretation
	Part 1 General duties
	Risk management process to be followed by PCBU in specified circumstances
4	Application of regulations 5 to 8
5	Duty to identify hazards
6	Hierarchy of control measures
7	Duty to maintain effective control measures
8	Duty to review control measures
	Supervision, training, and instruction of workers
9	Duty to provide information, supervision, training, and instruction
	General workplace facilities
10	Duty in relation to general workplace facilities
11	Duty to provide certain workplace facilities
12	Duty to provide workplace facilities in sufficient number and to maintain facilities
	First aid
13	Duty to provide first aid
	Emergency plans
14	Duty to prepare, maintain, and implement emergency plan
	Personal protective equipment
15	General duty of PCBU to provide personal protective equipment
16	Worker may choose to provide personal protective equipment
17	Other duties of PCBU relating to personal protective equipment
18	Duty of worker to wear or use personal protective equipment
19	Duty of PCBU to ensure personal protective equipment worn or used by other persons
20	Duty of other persons to wear or use personal protective equipment
	Part 2 Management of particular risks
	Remote or isolated work
21	Managing risks associated with remote or isolated work
	Atmospheres with potential for fire or explosion
22	Managing risks associated with atmosphere with potential for fire or explosion
23	Managing risks associated with ignition sources
	Raised and falling objects
24	Managing risks associated with working under raised objects
25	Managing risks associated with falling objects
	Containers of liquids
26	Containers of liquids
	Loose but enclosed materials
27	Managing risks associated with loose but enclosed materials
	Substances hazardous to health
28	Managing risks associated with substances hazardous to health
29	Ensuring prescribed exposure standards for substances hazardous to health are not exceeded
30	When exposure monitoring required
31	When health monitoring required
	Part 3 Duties relating to exposure monitoring and health monitoring
	Exposure monitoring
32	Duties relating to exposure monitoring
	Health monitoring
33	Duty to inform worker of health monitoring
34	Duty to ensure appropriate health monitoring is provided
35	Duty to ensure health monitoring is supervised
36	Duty to pay costs of health monitoring
37	Information that must be provided to occupational health practitioner
38	Duty to obtain health monitoring report
39	Duty to give health monitoring report to worker
40	Duty to give health monitoring report to relevant PCBUs
41	Duty to give health monitoring report to regulator
42	Health monitoring records
	Part 4 Young persons at workplace
43	Duty to ensure young persons do not carry out certain work
44	General duties relating to young persons at workplace
45	Duty to ensure young persons do not perform harmful tasks
46	Duty to ensure young persons do not work at or with machinery
47	Duty to ensure young persons do not drive or ride upon certain vehicles
48	Duty to ensure young persons do not carry out night work
	Part 5 Limited-attendance child-care centres
49	Duty to ensure workers at limited-attendance child-care centres are suitable
50	Duty to carry out Police vetting of workers at limited-attendance child-care centres
51	Duty to ensure Police vet obtained before worker has unsupervised access to children
52	Procedures relating to Police vets of limited-attendance child-care workers
	Part 6 Consequential amendments
53	Consequential amendments to Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995
54	Regulations 5 and 6 revoked
55	Regulations 14 and 15 revoked
56	Parts 5 to 7 revoked
	Gazette Information
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